Practice Quiz Chapter 08

. Economic anthropology is the study of ________.

. All of the following statements about neo-classical economic theory are false except ________.

. The problem with relying solely on internal and external explanations for human consumption patterns is that they both ignore ________.

. Both Richard B. Lee and Marshall Sahlins considered the Ju/'hoansi— a foraging society— to be affluent because the Ju/'hoansi were ________.

. According to anthropologist Eric Wolf, the tributary mode of production ________.

. The potlatch is an example of ________ frequently used by the First Nations peoples of Canada's west coast.

. The following statement about the Marxian approach to economic anthropology is true: ________.

. All of the following statements about the exchange of banana leaves on the Trobriand Islands are false except ________.

. Institutionalized sharing among the Plains Cree of North America is supposed to ________.

. The motives that drive the exchange of resources can be understood through the study of ________.

. The term ________ best describes the culturally specific processes used by members of a society to provide themselves with material resources.

. The term "institutions" in relation to culture refers to ________.

. When we divide up subsistence strategies the primary division of types is between ________.

. People that farm using plows, draft animals, irrigation and fertilizer are said to be involved in _______ agriculture.

. The first two phases of economic activity are production and distribution. The third is ________.

. ________involves giving without an immediate or calculated expectation of repayment.

. The most recent form of exchange practiced as part of human culture is ________.

. Anthropologists who are interested in cultural ecology study ________.

. Considering the dietary prohibitions laid out in the Bible in Leviticus, Mary Douglas points out that the prohibited foods are ________.

. Richard Lee has pointed out that despite not being monetarily wealthy, one can consider the Ju/'hoansi foragers to be rather ________.

. Extensive agriculture makes use of slash-and-burn techniques for managing farmland.

. Subsistence is linked to basic material survival needs such as food, clothing, and shelter.

. The Canada Revenue Agency is an example of a redistribution system.

. The modes of production are the tools, skills, organization, and knowledge used to extract energy from nature.

. Large-scale food-storage techniques predict the "changes of hand" that food will undergo once it has been stored.

. Ideology refers to the cultural products of conscious reflection.

. The market exchange system is unique to capitalist societies.

. In Marxian thought, mental or cognitive labour is insignificant; only physical labour is significant in its effects on social organization.

. Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski's internal explanation approach helps us understand why different societies have different consumption patterns.

. The condition of poverty depends on each society's definition of its needs and wants.

. Slavery is a well-established form of unfree labour.

. Economic anthropology is only useful when studying capitalist societies with market economies.

. Food collectors must always be nomadic and can never settle and build permanent settlements.

. Reciprocity is the most ancient mode of exchange for humans to engage in.

. The concept of labour is very central to Marxist economic theories.

. Karl Marx believed that ideology was irrelevant to understanding labour and economics.

. Anthropologists rely on three levels of explanations to understand human consumption patterns.

. Annette Weiner, who studied in the Trobriand Islands, found that Malinowski had never described the accumulation and exchange of banana leaves by women.

. Richard Lee found that the Ju/'hoansi foragers were often suffering from hunger and malnutrition on a seasonal basis.

. The Cree traditionally believed that they should give away more material goods than they receive as generosity was an important cultural ideal.

. The point of redistribution is to provide for the basic needs of every member of a social group.

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