ANT 102 Review Quiz

What is the definition of agriculture?

• The cultivation of domesticated plants and animals using technologies that allow for extensive use of the land.

• The measurement of the number of calories that can be extracted from a particular unit of land in order to support a human population.

• The process of buying, eating, or using a resource, food, commodity, or service.

• The study of how human cultures have developed over time as a result of interactions with the environment.

What is the immediate return system?

• In which the food acquired can be now consumed. Ex: Foraging

• Techniques for obtaining food that require an investment of work over a period of time before the food becomes available for consumption.

• The exchange of something with the expectation that something of equal value will be returned within a specific time period.

• Giving without expecting a specific thing in return.

What is horticulture?

• The cultivation of domesticated plants and animals using technologies that allow for intensive use of the land.

• A subsistence system based on the small-scale cultivation of crops intended primarily for the direct consumption of the household or immediate community.

• A subsistence system in which people raise herds of domesticated livestock.

• The set of skills, practices, and technologies used by members of a society to acquire and distribute food.

What is the definition of foraging?

• The cultivation of domesticated plants and animals using technologies that allow for intensive use of the land.

• A subsistence system that relies on wild plant and animal food resources.

• The study of how human cultures have developed over time as a result of interactions with the environment.

• The exchange of something with the expectation that something of equal value will be returned within a specific time period.

What is balanced reciprocity?

• The cultivation of domesticated plants and animals using technologies that allow for intensive use of the land.

• The exchange of something with the expectation that something of equal value will be returned within a specific time period.

• Giving without expecting a specific thing in return.

• An attempt to get something for nothing; exchange in which both parties try to take advantage of the other.

What is the definition of state?

• The most complex form of political organization characterized by a central government that has a monopoly over legitimate uses of physical force, a sizable bureaucracy, a system of formal laws, and a standing military force.

• The division of society into hierarchical levels; one's position is determined by birth and remains fixed for life.

• Large political units in which the chief, who usually is determined by heredity, holds a formal position of power.

• Societies in which there are large differences in the wealth, status, and power of individuals based on unequal access to resources and positions of power.

What is the definition of caste system?

• The cultivation of domesticated plants and animals using technologies that allow for intensive use of the land.

• The division of society into hierarchical levels; one's position is determined by birth and remains fixed for life.

• Large political units in which the chief, who usually is determined by heredity, holds a formal position of power.

• Societies in which there are large differences in the wealth, status, and power of individuals based on unequal access to resources and positions of power.

What is the definition of egalitarian?

• Societies in which there is no great difference in status or power between individuals and there are as many valued status positions in the societies as there are persons able to fill them.

• The cultivation of domesticated plants and animals using technologies that allow for intensive use of the land.

• The division of society into hierarchical levels; one's position is determined by birth and remains fixed for life.

• The accumulation of goods or labor by a particular person or institution for the purpose of dispersal at a later date.

What is matrilineal kinship?

• Family relationships created through marriage.

• Political units organized around family ties that have fluid or shifting systems of temporary leadership.

• Kinship systems that recognize only relatives through a line of female ancestors.

• Kinship systems that recognize only relatives through a line of male ancestors.

What is the definition of subsistence?

• The cultivation of domesticated plants and animals using technologies that allow for intensive use of the land.

• The set of skills, practices, and technologies used by members of a society to acquire and distribute food.

• Large political units in which the chief, who usually is determined by heredity, holds a formal position of power.

• Societies in which there are large differences in the wealth, status, and power of individuals based on unequal access to resources and positions of power.