Exam 18: Economic Systems

Because trade can be essential in the quest for survival and is often undertaken for the sake of luxury,people may go to great lengths to establish and maintain good trade relations.A classic example of this is the Kula ring.What is the "Kula ring?" Describe this form of exchange compare it to different types of exchange in your own society.Do we practice anything similar to Kula?

In which society are we most likely to find exploitative child labor conditions?

In most societies,the basic unit of the cooperation is the:

What do we call the division of labor pattern in which men and women carry out their work separately,while maintaining a socially and economically complementary balance?

Amanda Stronza is involved in doing applied anthropology among the Trobriands,where she studies aspects of women's work and task specialization.

Which of the following items is exchanged in the Trobriands during death rituals?

What is an informal economy? Provide examples.

Describe the economic and noneconomic functions of the Kula ring.

Describe the conditions that are likely to produce an economic system of redistribution.

When a man works hard in his garden in the Trobriand Islands to produce yams,he does this to satisfy which of the following demands?

Describe the variation that exists among nonindustrial societies in their organization of labor by age.

The use of money for exchange has been traced back as far as 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia.

What is an economic system from an anthropological approach?

What are the benefits that some local communities acquire by engaging in global ecotourism?

Define technology,and describe how it varies in societies with different economic systems.

How have local economies been affected by global capitalism? Give some examples from your own community.

Leveling mechanisms are found in many traditional societies.What are these,and do you believe we have any kind of "leveling"-type activities and exchanges in the U.S.today? Discuss.

Why is it a serious problem when North American corporate executives fail to recognize the extent to which the economic systems of other peoples are embedded in their cultures?

In 2011,more than 1 billion people were employed by the tourist industry worldwide.

Compare and contrast the different ideas about the nature and control of land that exist among food foragers,horticulturalists,pastoralists,intensive agriculturalists,and industrialists.