Question: Which of the following is an example of a rule of endogamy?
Answer Options:
• a taboo on mating with members of one’s extended family
• a taboo on marrying members of the same totemic group
• a law that forbids against marrying within the same village
• the Orthodox Jewish law that forbids Jews from marrying anyone but other Jews
Answer: the Orthodox Jewish law that forbids Jews from marrying anyone but other Jews
Question: How are nonindustrial economic systems embedded in society?
Answer Options:
• People are not aware that they are working toward a goal.
• Most nonindustrial economies are managed systems.
• The economic system cannot easily be separated from other systems, such as kinship.
• The economic system has little to do with the everyday life of the people.
• Most economic activity takes place far from home.
Answer: The economic system cannot easily be separated from other systems, such as kinship.
Question: Which of the following is an example of a social, legal, and moral implication of new reproductive technologies (NRT).
Answer Options:
• NRTs are expensive making it difficult or impossible for some people to access them
• What is to be done if a surrogate refuses to give up the baby
• Exploitation of surrogates who come from a marginalized and/or vulnerable population
• Some people believe that NRTs are against gods will
• All of the above
Answer: All of the above
Question: Horticulture refers to low-intensity farming that often uses slash-and-burn techniques to clear land.
Answer Options:
• True
• False
Answer: True
Question: Economic anthropologists have been concerned with two main questions, one focusing on systems of human behavior and the other on the individuals who participate in those systems. The first question is: How are production, distribution, and consumption organized in different societies? The second question is:
Answer Options:
• What motivates people in different cultures to produce, distribute or exchange, and consume?
• What encourages overconsumption in Western economies?
• Why has the myth of the profit-maximizing individual been so pervasive, despite evidence to the contrary?
• What are the best ways to convince individuals in funding agencies of the value of ethnographic knowledge in the realm of economics?
• All of the above
Answer: What motivates people in different cultures to produce, distribute or exchange, and consume?
Question: Economic anthropology differs from classical economics because anthropologists
Answer Options:
• do not assume transactions are the same everywhere
• recognize that culture shapes the character of any transaction
• focus on diversity of economic systems
• all of the above
• none of the above
Answer: all of the above
Question: In the Module 8’s lecture on sociopolitical organization, students learned that culture shapes —–__
Answer Options:
• what is acceptable to transact
• how and why the transaction will take place
• how the objects or services being exchanged are valued
• Only A and B
• A, B, and C
Answer: A, B, and C
Question: This chapter’s description of the San Bushmen’s relation to the government of Botswana provides a telling example of how ___.
Answer Options:
• foraging communities identities are being reshaped by their relationships with NGOS.
• human rights are limited.
• foragers are willingly choosing to change their lifestyles and become a part of the global village.
• more and more foragers have come under the control of nation-states and are now influenced by the forces of globalization.
• the foraging lifestyle has finally become a thing of the past.
Answer: more and more foragers have come under the control of nation-states and are now influenced by the forces of globalization.
Question: What is the term for the marital practice in which the bride’s family provides substantial gifts to the groom’s family at marriage?
Answer Options:
• dowry
• progeny price
• bridewealth
• brideservice
• polygamy
Answer: dowry
Question: In which of the following marriage practices is a child’s father a female, with no genetic relationship to the child, and is married to both the child’s mother (her wife) and possible another man (her husband).
Answer Options:
• Adoption
• Polyandrous
• Ghost-marriage
• Woman-to-woman marriage
• Same sex marriage
Answer: Woman-to-woman marriage
Question: Why does exogamy, the practice of seeking a husband or wife outside one’s own kin group, have adaptive value outside of biological concerns?
Answer Options:
• It impedes peaceful relations among social groups and therefore promotes population expansion.
• Exogamy is not adaptive; it is just a cultural construction.
• It increases the likelihood that disadvantageous alleles will find phenotypic expression and thus be eliminated from the population.
• It creates new social ties and alliances, providing access to more resources and social networks.
Answer: It creates new social ties and alliances, providing access to more resources and social networks.
Question: The processual nature of kinship recognizes that kinship is predetermined and fixed by biology at birth.
Answer Options:
• True
• False
Answer: False