Anthropology 150 - The Human Adventure » Spring 2020 » Quiz 8

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Question #1
In Big Man societies the motivation for sponsorship of festivals and feasts may be
A.   to give away everything in order to gain prestige
B.   to get fat
C.   to charge admission and make a profit
D.   to receive tribute
Question #2
George Dalton and Karl Polanyi both spoke of the embedded economy This term indicates
A.   that people often conduct economic activities from their beds
B.   that in some societies economic activity is embedded in social relationships
C.   that a desire for material gain is embedded in the psyche of all people
D.   certain key trading posts, or enclaves, can be embedded in resource-rich locations
Question #3
Collective ownership of the means of the production is evident in (choose all that apply)
A.   When foragers gather together at swimming holes
B.   When clans or lineages own productive resources, such as agricultural plots
C.   When people collect valuable resources, such as gold
D.   Car pools
Question #4
What occurs as you move toward the more intensive end of the cultivating continuum
A.   decreasing marginal returns relative to labor input
B.   increased reliance on swidden cultivation
C.   increased egalitarianism
D.   increased leisure time
E.   longer fallow periods
Question #5
Market systems of exchange may require
A.   foraging capitalists
B.   state-level political organizations to guarantee property and provide regulations
C.   open spaces for merchants to set up their booths
D.   economic nomadism
Question #6
What are the two forms of pastoralism (Pick all that apply),,
A.   Tropical
B.   Lackadaisical
C.   nomadism
D.   Transmontane
E.   Transhumance
Question #7
A mode of production refers to
A.   a cultural system of technology, property ownership, and social relationships
B.   a society in which there is a single most frequent profession or the statistical mode
C.   Making things with models from the Latin modus
D.   getting ice cream as a job benefit a la mode
Question #8
Shifting cultivation
A.   relies extensively on chemical fertilizers
B.   cannot support permanent villages
C.   requires cultivators to change plots of land every 2 to 3 years
D.   is typically associated with use of draft animals
E.   requires some form of irrigation
Question #9
Markets systems of exchanges are most commonly found in
A.   intensive agriculturalists
B.   foraging societies
C.   horticultural societies
D.   pastoralists

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