Exam 11: Subsistence and Exchange

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​Agricultural life is associated with fixed settlements.

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​Guido Mamani, the general manager of Bolivia's Chalalán, characterized the success of their lodges in all of the following ways except:

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​Of the following, which is the greatest drawback of industrial food production?

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Small-scale producers of crops or livestock living on land self-owned or rented in exchange for labor, crops, or money and exploited by more powerful groups in a complex society are known as __________.​

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​Mixed subsistence strategy (crop growing and animal breeding) was primarily found associated with which geographical region?

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​What is the primary difference between land management and control in traditional nonindustrial societies and in industrial societies?

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Silent trade is commonly practiced when there are potentially adversarial groups.

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​Subsistence, or the means of acquiring resources, is a part of the cultural:

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​What does it mean to be an informal economy?

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​Pastoralism is associated with each of the following except:

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​Why is horticulture considered to be ecologically sustainable?

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​In North American society, typically a birthday party is an example of:

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​What are the three primary resources in any culture?

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​Which of the following is not commonly associated with peasants?

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The control of resources is characteristic of all societies. Historically, natural resources such as land and water (obvious necessities) have been central in framing disputes over who controls these resources and who has access to them. Over the past decade, anthropologists have become more concerned with conflicts arising over the access and privilege to water. Discuss arguments for and against privatizing an essential component to human life.

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​An organized arrangement for producing, distributing, and consuming goods is called a(n) __________ system.

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​The average weight of an individual's belongings among the Ju/'hoansi is:

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​Work that involves all members of a community is referred to as ___________________.

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​A process for the exchange of goods between mutually distrusting ethnic groups so as to avoid direct personal contact is called:

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​A network of people producing and circulating marketable commodities, labor, and services that for various reasons escape government control is called a(n):

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