Question 1

Anthropologist Amanda Stronza studied ecotourism in northern Bolivia.The local indigenous leaders saw all of the following benefits in local ecotourism except:

Accepted Answer

A) creation of local employment opportunities. 
B) development of new markets for local handicrafts. 
C) desire to leave behind local cultural traditions and become more "Western." 
D) resources to construct new schools and health clinics. 
E) development of a community identity.

Question 2

The Kula ring is a form of that reinforces trade relations among a group of seafaring Melanesians inhabiting a ring of islands off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea.

Accepted Answer

A) negative reciprocity 
B) balanced reciprocity 
C) market exchange 
D) silent trade 
E) generalized reciprocity

Question 3

The U.S.system of paying income taxes every April is an example of:

Accepted Answer

A) generalized reciprocity. 
B) balanced reciprocity. 
C) negative reciprocity. 
D) redistribution. 
E) market exchange.

Question 4

The Kula ring is a form of barter in which no actual trade takes place.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Anthropologist Rosita Worl has been associated with each of the following except:

Accepted Answer

A) Board of Directors at Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian 
B) President of the Sealaska Heritage Institute. 
C) founder of Alaska Native News. 
D) faculty at University of Alaska Southeast. 
E) author of Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Question 6

When Spanish invaded Mexico and Guatemala,they adopted the local practice of using money.What item represented money in this area?

Accepted Answer

A) Coca leaves 
B) Cacao 
C) Feathers 
D) Salt 
E) Silver

Question 7

Which of the following is the fundamental characteristic of the market in non-Western societies?

Accepted Answer

A) It is located in a rural area close to where produce is grown. 
B) It is found only in towns where produce is grown,distributed,and consumed. 
C) It is an abstract concept,where goods are exchanged over the Internet. 
D) It is a traditional marketplace,where actual goods are exchanged. 
E) There is no concrete marketplace where actual goods are exchanged.

Question 8

Which of the following statements is correct?

Accepted Answer

A) Yams are eaten at every meal once harvest season occurs. 
B) A family gets all of its yams from the husband's sister's family. 
C) Once harvested,yams are not usually eaten as daily food. 
D) All men sponsor a yam competition as a puberty ritual. 
E) Women are never allowed to handle or distribute yams.

Question 9

Tools tend to be fewer and simpler among:

Accepted Answer

A) mobile food foragers and pastoralists. 
B) semi-permanent horticulturalists. 
C) sedentary agriculturalists. 
D) wealthy industrialists. 
E) rice farmers.

Question 10

What do we call a network of producing and circulating marketable commodities,labor,and services that for various reasons escapes government control?

Accepted Answer

A) Formal economy 
B) Informal economy 
C) Hidden economy 
D) Silent trade 
E) Redistribution

Question 11

The Kula ring functions to do all of the following except:

Accepted Answer

A) distribute scarce resources over a broad ecological zone. 
B) establish allies among potential enemies. 
C) gain power through the ability to give and receive highly valued prestige items. 
D) accumulate wealth in the hands of an upper-class elite. 
E) foster a ritual of ceremonial exchange.

Question 12

Leveling mechanisms are found in every society,although they are less common in smaller,more traditional societies where there is less material need.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Balanced reciprocity:

Accepted Answer

A) is part of a long-term process in which nothing is specified about what is expected in return or when it is expected. 
B) involves the expectation of a specific and immediate exchange. 
C) usually occurs between members of different communities who may have a hostile,distrustful relationship. 
D) is exemplified by your stopping to give a stranger a lift,and replying,when he thanks you,"Pass it on to the next stranger you meet who needs your help." 
E) does not occur in industrial societies.

Question 14

The mode of distribution called reciprocity refers to the exchange of goods and services:

Accepted Answer

A) between people in hierarchical relationships. 
B) for the purpose of maintaining social relationships and gaining prestige. 
C) to make a profit. 
D) to embarrass the person who gave the least. 
E) of unequal value.

Question 15

There is a degree of task specialization in all societies.In the Danakil region of Eritrea,the Afar men occasionally mine what mineral as a trade good?

Accepted Answer

A) Iron 
B) Salt 
C) Silver 
D) Tin 
E) Mercury

Question 16

Among food foragers such as the Ju/'hoansi,land is:

Accepted Answer

A) defined as a territory with usable resources and flexible boundaries that belongs to a band that has occupied it for a long time. 
B) thought of as belonging to those who have bought it. 
C) considered private property,however the owner wants to share in order to be part of the band. 
D) owned by the ancestors,and the living only use it. 
E) leased by a corporation of strangers who support the survival of the foraging lifestyle.

Question 17

Among the Inca there was such a thing as "chocolate money."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Something used to make payments for other goods and services as well as to measure their value is called:

Accepted Answer

A) money. 
B) credit. 
C) prestige. 
D) barter. 
E) silent trade.

Question 19

Today,almost 215 million child laborers under the age of 14 work for income.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

What do we call a system in which goods are produced,distributed,and consumed?

Accepted Answer

A) Economic 
B) Political 
C) Religious 
D) Kinship 
E) Industrial

Exam 8: Economic-Systems

Anthropologist Amanda Stronza studied ecotourism in northern Bolivia.The local indigenous leaders saw all of the following benefits in local ecotourism except:

The Kula ring is a form of that reinforces trade relations among a group of seafaring Melanesians inhabiting a ring of islands off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea.

The U.S.system of paying income taxes every April is an example of:

The Kula ring is a form of barter in which no actual trade takes place.

Anthropologist Rosita Worl has been associated with each of the following except:

When Spanish invaded Mexico and Guatemala,they adopted the local practice of using money.What item represented money in this area?

Which of the following is the fundamental characteristic of the market in non-Western societies?

Which of the following statements is correct?

Tools tend to be fewer and simpler among:

What do we call a network of producing and circulating marketable commodities,labor,and services that for various reasons escapes government control?

The Kula ring functions to do all of the following except:

Leveling mechanisms are found in every society,although they are less common in smaller,more traditional societies where there is less material need.

Balanced reciprocity:

The mode of distribution called reciprocity refers to the exchange of goods and services:

There is a degree of task specialization in all societies.In the Danakil region of Eritrea,the Afar men occasionally mine what mineral as a trade good?

Among food foragers such as the Ju/'hoansi,land is:

Among the Inca there was such a thing as "chocolate money."

Something used to make payments for other goods and services as well as to measure their value is called:

Today,almost 215 million child laborers under the age of 14 work for income.

What do we call a system in which goods are produced,distributed,and consumed?