Question 1

The red dye that the Mekranoti use for painting ornaments and people's bodies is _______________.

Accepted Answer

A) papaya 
B) achiote 
C) India ink 
D) capybara 
E) barbasco

Question 2

A/an _______________ is composed of the physical environment and the organisms living within it;an important part of this environment for humans is _______________.

Accepted Answer

A) subsistence economy/tools 
B) ecosystem/culture 
C) adaptation system/technology 
D) culture/society 
E) culture area/subsistence economy

Question 3

Anthropologist _______________ is director of the Cusichaca trust in Ballbroughton,England,a rural development project that revives ancient farming practices.

Accepted Answer

A) Jorge Urioste 
B) Bernardo Arriaza 
C) Maximo F.Miranda 
D) Ann Kendall 
E) Alex Chepstow-Lusty

Question 4

_______________ are food producers who specialize in animal husbandry,and who consider their way of life to be ideal and central to defining their identities.

Accepted Answer

A) Food foragers 
B) Horticulturalists 
C) Intensive agriculturalists 
D) Pastoralists 
E) Industrialists

Question 5

As anthropologists have come to understand the traditional practices of indigenous peoples,the more they have been impressed by the soundness and sophistication of their knowledge.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Early food producers have developed several major crop complexes.What are they?

Accepted Answer

A) was a stratified society based on achievement and education 
B) was an urbanized society in which kinship played no role in determining status 
C) was an industrial city-state 
D) was invincible to Cortes' attack 
E) two adapted to dry uplands and two adapted to tropical wetlands

Question 7

Slash-and-burn cultivation is _______________.

Accepted Answer

A) an intensive form of horticulture 
B) an extensive form of horticulture 
C) inherently destructive of the natural environment 
D) an inefficient means of agricultural production 
E) all of the above

Question 8

Ovulation requires a certain minimum of body fat,and in traditional foraging societies,this is not achieved until _______________.

Accepted Answer

A) early adulthood 
B) early teens 
C) late adolescence 
D) middle adulthood 
E) early 30s

Question 9

An important characteristic of the food-foraging society is its _______________.

Accepted Answer

A) competitiveness 
B) egalitarianism 
C) aggressiveness 
D) flamboyance 
E) permanent settlements

Question 10

Swidden farming,or slash-and-burn,is inherently destructive of the environment.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The Bakhtiari are pastoralist nomads who shepherd their herds throughout the Iran-Iraq border area following their herds.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Among food-foraging populations,_______________ of people is an important mechanism for regulating social density,as well as assuring that the size and composition of local groups is suited to local variations in resources.

Accepted Answer

A) integration 
B) segregation 
C) redistribution 
D) mobilization 
E) concentration

Question 13

Frequent nursing of children over as many as 4 or 5 years acts to stimulate ovulation among food foragers such as Bushman.As a consequence,women give birth to many offspring at shorter intervals.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The average weight of an individual's personal belongings among the Ju/'hoansi is _______________ lbs.

Accepted Answer

A) 25 
B) 35 
C) 40 
D) 55 
E) 100

Question 15

Humankind's unique creative capacity to adapt by means of colonization has enabled our species to inhabit an extraordinary variety of environments.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 7: Patterns of Subsistence

The red dye that the Mekranoti use for painting ornaments and people's bodies is _______________.

A/an _ is composed of the physical environment and the organisms living within it;an important part of this environment for humans is _.

Anthropologist _______________ is director of the Cusichaca trust in Ballbroughton,England,a rural development project that revives ancient farming practices.

_______________ are food producers who specialize in animal husbandry,and who consider their way of life to be ideal and central to defining their identities.

As anthropologists have come to understand the traditional practices of indigenous peoples,the more they have been impressed by the soundness and sophistication of their knowledge.

Early food producers have developed several major crop complexes.What are they?

Slash-and-burn cultivation is _______________.

Ovulation requires a certain minimum of body fat,and in traditional foraging societies,this is not achieved until _______________.

An important characteristic of the food-foraging society is its _______________.

Swidden farming,or slash-and-burn,is inherently destructive of the environment.

The Bakhtiari are pastoralist nomads who shepherd their herds throughout the Iran-Iraq border area following their herds.

Among food-foraging populations,_______________ of people is an important mechanism for regulating social density,as well as assuring that the size and composition of local groups is suited to local variations in resources.

Frequent nursing of children over as many as 4 or 5 years acts to stimulate ovulation among food foragers such as Bushman.As a consequence,women give birth to many offspring at shorter intervals.

The average weight of an individual's personal belongings among the Ju/'hoansi is _______________ lbs.

Humankind's unique creative capacity to adapt by means of colonization has enabled our species to inhabit an extraordinary variety of environments.