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What is the key feature that distinguishes intensive agriculture from horticulture?
Intensive agriculture uses techniques that allow people to cultivate fields permanently.
What happens to generalized reciprocity in times of scarcity?
Sharing tends to increase during times of food shortage, but not famine.
What is the difference between market exchange (when money is not involved) and balanced reciprocity?
In market exchange, supply and demand determine the price.
What is the difference between foraging and food production?
Foraging uses only wild plants and animals, while food production cultivates and domesticates them.
Among pastoral nomads, wealth is usually measured in __________.
animals
How might we best describe the subsistence strategies of contemporary cultures?
Most people today are food producers.
Using the anthropological definition, which of the following is an example of horticulture?
shifting cultivation
Compared to food collectors, horticulturalists generally __________.
get more food from a given area
In the modern world, __________.
every society has been incorporated into some larger, centralized political system
In rank societies and some state societies such as monarchies, rulers gain their authority through __________.
inheritance
Complementary opposition is typical of which kind of group?
segmentary lineages
In addition to government and politics, political life includes __________.
the resolution of disputes
Level of political integration refers to the __________.
largest territorial group on whose behalf political activities are organized
The different types of political organization are often strongly linked to variation in __________.
food-getting, economy, and social stratification
What explanation has been put forth to explain the legitimacy of power in a state organization?
States must provide people with real or rational advantages.
What distinguishes tribal from band political organization?
the presence of some multi-local, but not usually society wide, integration
A single mother and her son, living together, would be an example of a( n ) __________ family.
Independent
In a matrilineal descent group, __________.
females rarely exercise authority in their kin groups
In societies with unilineal descent, __________.
some very close biological relatives are excluded from one's kin group
What is the prevailing family type in over half of all societies known to anthropologists?
extended family
In societies that practice matrilineal descent, a man belongs to the same descent group as his __________.
sister's son
How are members of a lineage connected?
They can trace descent from a common ancestor through known links.
What is the primary contrast between avunculocal and matrilocal societies?
Avunculocal societies fight internally, while matrilocal societies fight externally.
How common is the neolocal residence pattern practiced by most North Americans?
It is very rare, being seen in only about 5 percent of known societies.
Which of the following statements is true of the relationship between family and household?
In simpler societies, the family and household are indistinguishable, but in more complex societies they may diverge.
Which type of subsistence strategy has been practiced at one time in almost all areas of the earth?
foraging
Studies have shown that many foraging and small-scale horticultural societies work just a few hours a day on subsistence and have much more leisure time than workers in complex societies. Which of the following statements explains this model?
Any surplus food these societies collect or produce cannot be stored for long and will rot.
When the federal government collects a portion of our wages as taxes and then returns that money in the form of national security, roads, education, and other goods and services to its citizens, it is demonstrating which type of economic exchange?
redistribution
Systems regulating the way goods and services are distributed are closely associated with the society's __________.
food-getting technology
Complex foraging societies like the Tlingit and the Nimpkish tend to have more __________ than most other foraging societies.
social inequality
In states with more collective action, rulers __________.
finance public works projects
Which of the following statements is true of state organization?
A state may include more than one society, and a society may contain more than one state.
Which of these features is characteristic of a band?
low population density
Which of these subsistence patterns would you expect to find in a chiefdom?
intensive agriculture
In contrast to band societies, groups with tribal organizations tend to be __________.
food producers
What is the key distinction between tribes and chiefdoms?
A chiefdom has some formal structure that integrates communities into a political unit.
Patrilineal societies, but not matrilineal societies, tend to be __________.
locally exogamous
Among foraging societies, what factor favors a bilocal residence pattern?
low rainfall
Societies with __________ descent have two rules of descent, each traced through links of one sex only, operating at the same time.
double
Which of the following shows the different descent groups from least to most common?
ambilineal, bilateral, unilateral
The presence of patrilocal residence pattern can often be predicted in societies that __________.
frequently fight with neighboring groups, so the sons are needed close to home for defense
A phratry is a __________ descent group composed of supposedly related __________.
unilineal; clans
Many anthropologists suggest that neolocal residence is related to the presence of __________.
a commercial economy
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