Exam 8: Band Societies

All forager groups have a concept of private land ownership similar to that found in Western societies.

Food production, as a subsistence pattern, developed about:

Negative reciprocity most likely occurs between:

If you discovered a society in which males and females participated equally in political decisions, where females were treated with the same respect as males, and where there was little evidence of male domination or maltreatment of women, you would probably be in a/an culture.

The main characteristic shared by all hunting and gathering societies, past and present, is:

The most likely reason why hunter-gatherer technology is limited to simple tools made of stone, wood, and bone is because foraging peoples:

Reciprocity occurs only in egalitarian, non-stratified societies.

Evaluate the hypothesis that suggests, in societies where female contributions to the food supply are less critical or less valued than the male's contribution, female status is lower.

!Kung San women were often able to gather enough food from wild sources in one or two days to feed their children for an entire week.

Would you rather be involved in warfare as a member of a forager society or as a member of an industrial nation? Why?

How are the elderly treated in foraging societies? Is there any variation, or are the old considered to be useless entities that cannot hunt or gather? How are the elderly treated in the society you grew up in?

Is private ownership of land a universal concept that applies to all societies across the world? How much variation in "ownership" is found among forager groups?

The produced the most extensive material culture found among hunting and gathering societies.

Bride service occurs when an eligible woman offers her domestic services to her future or potential husband's family in exchange for allowing her to marry their son.

The nice thing about studying hunter-gatherer societies is the fact that they have never been in contact with or influenced by other cultures; thus, they are pristine cultural systems that anthropologists find intriguing.