Exam 11: Making a Living

In which food production system does part of the group's population accompany the herds to distant pastures and the remaining population maintain year-round villages and grow crops?

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Question 21

Intensive agriculture

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Question 22

This chapter's description of the San Bushmen's relation to the government of Botswana provides a telling example of how

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Question 23

Potlatching is a form of competitive feasting that enables individuals to redistribute surplus materials while simultaneously increasing their own prestige.

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Question 24

Which of the following are most characteristic of foragers?

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Question 25

Domesticated animals, more specifically their manure and their pulling capabilities, are key components of horticulture.

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Question 26

Agriculturalists tend to live in permanent villages that are larger and closer to other settlements than the semipermanent settlements of horticulturalists.

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Question 27

Band- and tribal-level societies actively promote craft and task specialization.

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Question 28

How are nonindustrial economic systems embedded in society?

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Question 29

Which of the following statements about peasants is NOT true?

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Question 30

Which of the following statements about shifting cultivation is true?

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Question 31

Because nonindustrial economies can have features of both horticulture and agriculture, it is useful to discuss cultivators as being arranged along a cultivation continuum. Which of the following generally occurs in moving toward the more intensive end of the cultivation continuum?

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Question 32

What term refers to the type of pastoral economy in which the entire population moves with their animals throughout the year?

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Question 33

In transhumant societies, the entire group moves with their animals throughout the year.

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Question 34

What are the means, or factors, of production?

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Question 35

The Kalahari Desert of southern Africa is home to the foraging group known as the Ju/'hoansi San.

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Question 36

With balanced reciprocity, the giver expects something in return equal to what was given.

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Question 37

Which of the following is a characteristic of most foraging societies?

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Question 38

In recent times, many foraging groups have been exposed to the idea of food production but have not adopted it. Why?

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Question 39

Which of the following is NOT characteristic of band-organized societies?

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Question 40

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In which food production system does part of the group's population accompany the herds to distant pastures and the remaining population maintain year-round villages and grow crops?

Intensive agriculture

This chapter's description of the San Bushmen's relation to the government of Botswana provides a telling example of how

Potlatching is a form of competitive feasting that enables individuals to redistribute surplus materials while simultaneously increasing their own prestige.

Which of the following are most characteristic of foragers?

Domesticated animals, more specifically their manure and their pulling capabilities, are key components of horticulture.

Agriculturalists tend to live in permanent villages that are larger and closer to other settlements than the semipermanent settlements of horticulturalists.

Band- and tribal-level societies actively promote craft and task specialization.

How are nonindustrial economic systems embedded in society?

Which of the following statements about peasants is NOT true?

Which of the following statements about shifting cultivation is true?

Because nonindustrial economies can have features of both horticulture and agriculture, it is useful to discuss cultivators as being arranged along a cultivation continuum. Which of the following generally occurs in moving toward the more intensive end of the cultivation continuum?

What term refers to the type of pastoral economy in which the entire population moves with their animals throughout the year?

In transhumant societies, the entire group moves with their animals throughout the year.

What are the means, or factors, of production?

The Kalahari Desert of southern Africa is home to the foraging group known as the Ju/'hoansi San.

With balanced reciprocity, the giver expects something in return equal to what was given.

Which of the following is a characteristic of most foraging societies?

In recent times, many foraging groups have been exposed to the idea of food production but have not adopted it. Why?

Which of the following is NOT characteristic of band-organized societies?

What Is Anthropology

Culture

Doing Anthropology

Evolution, Genetics, and Human Variation

The Primates

Early Hominins

The Genus Homo

The First Farmers

The First Cities and States

Language and Communication

Political Systems

Families, Kinship, and Marriage

Gender

Religion

Ethnicity and Race

Applying Anthropology

The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality

Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

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