Exam 5: Consumption and Exchange

During a famine, people are better off if they have access to indirect entitlements.

The basic needs fund is the largest budgetary category among foragers.

In Papua New Guinea, gender inequalities and food consumption patterns have caused many of the Fore people, mostly women, to suffer from __________.

The economist/philosopher Amartya Sen proposed the concept of __________.

For their children's birthday parties, middle-class and upper-class urbanites in __________ express their status by choosing cultural themes and/or hiring party professionals.

The budgetary fund that deals with the need for repair of tools, weapons, and shelter is referred to as the __________ fund.

In foraging societies, the largest share of people's "budget" usually is devoted to __________.

The theoretical perspective that views the Muslim taboo against eating meat from pigs by in terms of the ecology and economy of the Middle East is called __________.

Money is the oldest form of item used for exchange.

Indigenous peoples in the United States currently prefer the term "Indian" or "tribal people" rather than "Native American.

According to the textbook, investing in the stock market is a form of gambling.

Potlatching is now being revitalized among the Kwakwaka'wakw.

What is meant by minimalism and describe an ethnographic example.

Discuss three examples of change in consumption and exchange in recent times.

What are the different forms of money and how are they used?

Infinite needs most characterize which economic system?

Consumption patterns in the contemporary globalized world linked to mass production are labeled as __________.

Discuss some of the major effects of the global spread of consumerism.

If you were invited to attend a potlatch among the Kwakwaka'wakw Indians of the Pacific Northwest, you would probably __________.

What is the historical context and contemporary situation of the Kwakwaka'wakw?