Exam 7: Economic Systems

What factor can predict whether a particular food item will be shared with others?

Among the Mundurucú of Brazil, who controls the rights to use land?

What is the difference between market exchange (when money is not involved) and balanced reciprocity?

Commercialization through which means is associated with the formation of a peasantry?

Based on Hardin's arguments in "The Tragedy of the Commons," in which case would resources be best conserved in order to maximize yield?

After what point could the Mundurucú be considered a society with a market economy?

Among horticulturalists __________.

A great deal of the cross-cultural variation in economic systems is related to __________.

Researchers have found that cooperation is __________.

Redistribution is found in all societies but only becomes an important mechanism in __________.

In an anthropological sense, an economic system refers to __________.

In which groups of pastoralists is private ownership most likely to develop?

In parts of Melanesia, pigs can be purchased using strings of shells, which cannot be used to buy any other goods or services. This is an example of __________.

On what does the form of reciprocity used between people usually depend?

Chayanov's rule states that when resources are converted primarily to household consumption, people will work harder if __________.