According to Reed (Forest Development the Indian Way), until the recent incursion of
colonos (colonists, such as ranchers and farmers), Guaran villagers
a. had no contact with people in other parts of South America.
b. traded with outsiders for machetes, hooks, soap, and salt.
c. developed an indigenous market system that tied villages together.
d. were nomadic hunter/gatherers.
e. worked for decades as rubber tapers to augment their substance economy.
Mann (You@Work) notes the following attributes of employers today. Which one is not
an attribute of today’s employers?
a. They often list job openings on the Internet.
b. They dislike employees who “job hop” from one company to another.
c. They often “google” job applicants before they decide to interview them.
d. They may post application forms on the Internet.
e. They may check the Internet for an applicant’s credit rating and other personal
information.
A feud is an example of
a. coercion.
b. self-redress.
c. a legal dispute.
d. an infralegal dispute.
e. an extralegal dispute.
According to Gmelch (Nice Girls Don”t Talk to Rastas), when his students do fieldwork
in rural Barbadian communities
a. they fail to recognize that such communities are homogeneous.
b. they ignore the fact that class distinctions may be present in such communities.
c. they should expect to be looked down on by villagers.
d. both a and c.
e. none of the above
According to Fish (Mixed Blood), the terms moreno, loura, branca, and preta all refer
to
a. particular physical characteristics Brazilians use to assign people to what they call
tipos.
b. areas of Brazil after which groups of people are named.
c. Brazilian names for different tipos (types).
d. areas of Brazil from which particular tipos are thought to have originated.
e. a folk taxonomy of skin colors starting with black and ending with white.
When disputes are settled through a community meeting that provides for an informal
airing of the conflict, we term this kind of settlement process a(n)
a. ordeal.
b. self-redress.
c. court.
d. moot.
e. contest.
A recombination of things that are known into something different is called
a. culture change.
b. innovation.
c. social integration.
d. diffusion.
e. acculturation.
According to Bestor (How Sushi Went Global), the world demand for sushi and its
centerpiece, bluefin tuna, has resulted in four of the five outcomes listed below. Which
one is not an outcome of this demand?
a. Overfishing is threatening to reduce the number of bluefin tuna in the Atlantic.
b. The demand and increase in fishing to meet it have caused 28 countries to form a
regulatory group called the “International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic
Tunas (ICCAT).
c. There is a battle between U.S. regulators and fisherman and their European
counterparts over unequal limits on the number of tuna that can be fished.
d. The U.S. has made a unilateral declaration that tuna fishing by foreign factory ships
will not be permitted within 300 miles of its shores.
e. The introduction of the almadraba system of fishing in the Spanish waters near
Gibraltar.
One would expect to find the least job specialization in a
a. hunting and gathering society.
b. horticultural society.
c. industrial society.
d. agricultural society.
e. pastoral society.
Slash-and-burn agriculture would best be classified as a kind of which one of the
following adaptive strategies?
a. hunting and gathering
b. horticulture
c. agriculture
d. pastoralism
e. industrialism
According to examples presented by the Freeds (Taraka’s Ghost), in North India ghosts
can
a. live in wells.
b. possess women who were their friends in life.
c. seize people’s souls and hurt or kill them.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
According to McCurdy (Family and Kinship in Village India), marriage allies the
families of the bride and groom, which then become equal partners in an association of
feminal kin.
According to Lee, the most important staple in the diet of the !Kung when studied in
1963 was
a. taro root.
b. the mongongo nut.
c. giraffe meat.
d. a kind of bitter berry.
e. ostrich eggs.
Four of the following are effects of the international market for cocaine on Bolivians,
according to Weatherford. Which one is not?
a. It has reduced calcium intake.
b. It has increased potato production for export to cities.
c. It has contributed to inflation.
d. It has caused the feet of pistacocas (cocaine workers) to ulcerate.
e. It has disrupted family life.
According to Miner (Body Ritual among the Nacirema), the Nacirema display an
extreme concern for the maintenance and care of their bodies.
According to Guneratne and Bjork (Village Walks), tour companies characterized the
Tharu as
a. successful forest horticulturalists.
b. primitive forest aboriginals.
c. the remnants of a lost Nepalese tribe.
d. a mercantile ethnic group poised to sell tourists native artifacts.
e. refugees from central Nepal.