Exam 5: Consumption and Exchange

In highland Papua New Guinea, the food with the highest status is __________.

Define the concept of entitlements and explain the difference between direct and indirect entitlements, providing an example of each type.

In contrast to an entitlement bundle based on owning your own land and producing your own food, entitlements that involve exchange are referred to as __________.

Discuss the five categories of a consumption fund and what they are used for. Assess your own weekly or monthly expenditures, roughly, in terms of these categories. Are the categories adequate to capture your expenditure patterns? Do the five categories need to be redefined or do other categories need to be added? If yes, what and why? If no, comment as to why not.

Minimalism most characterizes which mode of consumption and exchange?

In terms of changes in consumption, the effects of __________ in Russia and Eastern Europe include class differences in consumption, deterioration in diets of pregnant women, increase in low birth weight babies, and an increase in childhood anemia.

A culture of sharing food until death contributed to the famine conditions in the Sudan in 1988.

Inequalities in consumption __________.

Define the pure gift and give an example of what a pure gift might be.

Because of missionary and government pressures, the Northwest Coast Indian potlatch system now __________.

Cultural anthropologists use the term __________ to refer to currency or items with recognized value that can be exchanged for other kinds of things.

The social distribution of the disease kuru in Papua New Guinea reflects an entitlement pattern based on which microcultural factor?

In terms of per capita income, Connecticut is the wealthiest state in the United States.

Minimalism is the mode of consumption most associated with settled agriculturalists.

The kula is an example of __________.