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A group with a foraging economy is most likely going to have which type of sociopolitical organization? |
| | A) | band |
| | B) | tribe |
| | C) | chiefdom |
| | D) | state |
| | E) | it varies |
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In a society organized as a band, what is probably the only group(s) significant to its members? |
| | A) | the band |
| | B) | nuclear family |
| | C) | band and sodalities |
| | D) | extended family and sodalities |
| | E) | nuclear family and band |
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All of the following are true about bands, except: |
| | A) | Bands have no methods of social control or dispute settlement. |
| | B) | Thefts are uncommon. |
| | C) | Bands lack formal law. |
| | D) | Bands are egalitarian with regard to power and authority. |
| | E) | Bands are impermanent. |
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Which of the following strategy or strategies are available to a man in Inuit society who feels wronged? |
| | A) | He could try and kill the rival. |
| | B) | He could call in the police. |
| | C) | He could challenge the rival to a song battle. |
| | D) | He could try and kill the rival or he could call in the police. |
| | E) | He could try and kill the rival or he could challenge the rival to a song battle. |
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All of the following about the Yanomami are true, except that the: |
| | A) | Yanomami are horticulturalists. |
| | B) | The only leadership position is the village head. |
| | C) | The Yanomami village head has the right to issue orders. |
| | D) | The Yanomami village head must lead in generosity. |
| | E) | Yanomami villagers who grow dissatisfied with their village head leave the village. |
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Which of the following statements about a big man is true? |
| | A) | Big men exist among the Yanomami. |
| | B) | The big man had authority among several villages. |
| | C) | Only certain men in a society are permitted to achieve the status of a big man. |
| | D) | The big man usually has less wealth than his neighbors. |
| | E) | The big man is the Polynesian equivalent to the Yanomami village head. |
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All of the following statements about the Nuer are true, except: |
| | A) | The Nuer practice a segmentary lineage organization. |
| | B) | Among the Nuer, leopard-skin men help to settle disputes. |
| | C) | A Nuer male has a constant group of allies. |
| | D) | The closer the relationship in terms of patrilineal descent, the greater the mutual support. |
| | E) | All of the above are true. |
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All of the following are organizational practices or offices that can have regional influence, except: |
| | A) | segmentary lineage organization |
| | B) | pantribal sodalities |
| | C) | big men |
| | D) | age sets |
| | E) | All of the practices or offices on this list have regional influence. |
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All of the following groups were discussed in the textbook as having pantribal sodalities, except: |
| | A) | Native Americans of the Central Plains of the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries |
| | B) | Basseri |
| | C) | Masai |
| | D) | Mende |
| | E) | All of the above had pantribal sodalities. |
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Early states emerged in all of the following locations, except: |
| | A) | Mesoamerica |
| | B) | northern China |
| | C) | Mesopotamia |
| | D) | Caribbean |
| | E) | Indus Valley |
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All of the following are typical features of chiefdoms, except: |
| | A) | differential access to resources |
| | B) | part-time political specialists |
| | C) | They are best known ethnographically from Polynesia. |
| | D) | social relations based primarily on kinship, marriage, descent, age, generation, and gender |
| | E) | chiefly redistribution |
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Which of the following social features is unique to state organization? |
| | A) | kinship |
| | B) | prestige |
| | C) | differential access to resources |
| | D) | stratification |
| | E) | nuclear family |
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All of the following are typical features of most states, except: |
| | A) | judges |
| | B) | big men |
| | C) | full-time religious practitioners |
| | D) | permanent military |
| | E) | taxation |
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A group with a pastoral economy is likely to be organized as a: |
| | A) | state |
| | B) | chiefdom |
| | C) | tribe |
| | D) | state or chiefdom |
| | E) | chiefdom or tribe |
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Examples of monuments constructed by chiefdoms include all of the following, except: |
| | A) | Stonehenge |
| | B) | earthen mounds of the southeastern United States |
| | C) | temple at Teotihuican, Mexico |
| | D) | temples of Hawai'i |
| | E) | All of the above are monuments built by chiefdoms. |
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