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1

Simplifying a problem to just the few factors or variables that can be observed or controlled is called:
A)holism
B)multi-factorial
C)reductionism
D)participant observation
2

Which of the following is NOT one of the three cultural subsystems discussed by Omohundro in his model of culture-as-system?
A)bureaucratic
B)social
C)techno-economic
D)ideological
3

What term describes the shifting of power from local and regional groups to centralized bureaucracies?
A)over-consumption
B)politicization
C)commercialization
D)globalization
4

Acquiring goods and services in quantities and at rates that natural resources are depleted and waste disposal becomes difficult is called:
A)politicization
B)linear thinking
C)over-consumption
D)economic anthropology
5

Anthropologist Roy Rappaport's study of the Tsembaga Maring of Papau New Guinea shows a cultural system that balances people, land, and:
A)horses
B)cows
C)houses
D)pigs
6

The Hopewellian Interaction Sphere in North America and Norse settlements in Northern Newfoundland are both evidence of:
A)cultural adjustments to cold climates and the preservation of fire
B)contact among societies long before modern globalization
C)the migration of a single trade language from coast to coast
D)the influence of European culture on Native American housing structures
7

What term describes the overlap of cultural institutions such as kinship, religion, or leadership, which we in our culture tend to label and think of as distinct?
A)embeddedness
B)globalization
C)linear connectivity
D)scale of organization
8

What type of household in Newfoundland may include at least two married couples living together and connected by kinship?
A)post-marital
B)nuclear
C)monogamous
D)extended family
9

The post-marital residence rule based on couples moving in with or beside the bride's kinsmen is called:
A)patrilocal
B)nuclear family
C)matrilocal
D)dowry
10

What term defines the ideas and practices involved in the production, distribution, and consumption of needed goods and service?
A)economy
B)market
C)ecology
D)context
11

Political economy focuses on:
A)the way economic systems and ecosystems influence each other
B)the way economic behavior and power relationships influence each other
C)the way gender affects access to political positions
D)the style of politics used by local merchants as opposed visiting traders
12

The degree of task specialization in the economy is called:
A)apprenticeship
B)over-determined job focus
C)causal connections
D)division of labor
13

What type of economies rely upon the gathering of wild plants and hunting wild animals?
A)horticultural
B)agricultural
C)foraging
D)exotic
14

The distribution of goods and services as gifts or trade is called:
A)geomancy
B)cosmology
C)reciprocity
D)scale
15

The pooling of goods in a focal figure who then disburses them is called:
A)negative reciprocity
B)political economy
C)Hopewellian Interaction Sphere
D)redistribution





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