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1
The aboriginal Washo people ate
A)acorns and elephant meat.
B)berries and seal meat.
C)corn and salmon.
D)pinon nuts and mule deer.
2
Which of the following insects is eaten by the Washo?
A)locusts (Mormon crickets)
B)morphane caterpillers
C)spiders
D)water beetles
3
Foragers exist on what type of energy budget?
A)high.
B)low.
C)general.
D)moderate
4
The archaeological record supports that the earliest subsistence strategy used by humans was
A)horticulture.
B)pastoralism.
C)agriculture.
D)foraging
5
Friedl suggests that foragers are egalitarian because
A)men procure most of the food.
B)the division of labor is relatively rigid.
C)both women and men contribute directly to the group's survival.
D)there is virtually no division of labor.
6
Economic anthropology includes all of the following EXCEPT
A)units of production.
B)approaches to syntax
C)technology in food procurement.
D)attitudes and motivations to work.
7
The study of the processes by which a society adapts to its environment is called
A)cultural ecology.
B)a functionalist approach.
C)heliocentric diffusionism.
D)an evolutionary approach.
8
Which of the following anthropologists is NOT associated with an evolutionary model of cultural development?
A)Leslie White
B)Elman Service
C)Marshall Sahlins
D)Benjamin Whorf
9
Which of the following forms of reciprocity usually occurs between kin with no one keeping track of what is being given or received?
A)generalized reciprocity
B)balanced reciprocity
C)negative reciprocity
D)redistribution
10
The Washo people are native to
A)Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia.
B)Amazon rain forest in Brazil and Venezuela.
C)Southern Sudan in Africa.
D)Great Basin and Sierra Nevada mountains in North America.





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