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 charge admission and make a profit
B.   to receive tribute
C.   to give away everything in order to gain prestige
D.   to get fat
Question #2
George Dalton and Karl Polanyi both spoke of the embedded economy This term indicates
A.   that a desire for material gain is embedded in the psyche of all people
B.   certain key trading posts, or enclaves, can be embedded in resource-rich locations
C.   that in some societies economic activity is embedded in social relationships
D.   that people often conduct economic activities from their beds
Question #3
Collective ownership of the means of the production is evident in (choose all that apply)
A.   Car pools
B.   When people collect valuable resources, such as gold
C.   When clans or lineages own productive resources, such as agricultural plots
D.   When foragers gather together at swimming holes
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 egalitarianism
C.   increased leisure time
D.   increased reliance on swidden cultivation
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.   Transhumance
C.   Lackadaisical
D.   nomadism
E.   Transmontane
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.   getting ice cream as a job benefit a la mode
D.   Making things with models from the Latin modus
Question #8
Shifting cultivation
A.   cannot support permanent villages
B.   requires some form of irrigation
C.   requires cultivators to change plots of land every 2 to 3 years
D.   is typically associated with use of draft animals
E.   relies extensively on chemical fertilizers
Question #9
Markets systems of exchanges are most commonly found in
A.   intensive agriculturalists
B.   horticultural societies
C.   foraging societies
D.   pastoralists

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