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Chapter 3: Pursuit of Food Quiz
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The equal exchange of resources is called
cultural relativity
alloparenting
tolerated theft
reciprocity
What is the oldest form of human subsistence?
horticulture
foraging
pastoralism
agriculture
When someone other than the mother provides help in caring for infants it is called
pastoralism
polyandry
alloparenting
partible paternity
Status that comes from a person’s accomplishment is called
achieved status
egalitarianism
ascribed status
reciprocity
The Cofán people
are no longer permitted to hunt whales
were removed from their traditional lands to make way for gorilla conservation
were removed from the Kalahari Desert
act as protectors of their homeland in the Amazon Basin and are involved in ecotourism
_______________ occurs when the cost of defending a resource is greater than the value of the resource itself
subsistence
horticulture
balanced reciprocity
tolerated theft
Foragers tend not to live beyond the age of 40
False
True
People that have been displaced from their traditional homeland as a result of conservation efforts are called
alloparents
pastoralists
conservation refugees
ethnologists
Sarah Hrdy argues that human alloparenting makes sense in light of
ethnocentrism
costly offspring and high infant mortality
extensive use of land
conservation refugees
Periodically moving farm plots in order for the soil to rejuvenate is called
intensive agriculture
unilineal evolution
pastoralism
shifting cultivation
Early intensive agriculture allowed people to have more leisure time.
Ture
False
Consequences of intensive agriculture include
sedentism
waste build-up
all of the above
increases in population density
Diseases that are transferred from animal to human populations are called
anthropocenes
intensification
allo-diseases
zoonotic diseases
A system of ranking cultures based on perceived social progress is called
alloparenting
unilineal evolution
cultural relativity
natural selection
An African “pygmy” that became part of a controversial zoo exhibit was
Rousseau
Ishi
Ota Benga
Herbert Spencer
Numbers of domesticated animals far exceed their wild counterparts
False
True
_______________ rejected unilineal evolution and coined the term cultural relativism.
Frans Boaz
Herbert Spencer
Jane Goodall
Ota Benga
The new proposed epoch, the age of humans, is called
Paleocene
the Anthropocene
Pleistocene
Culturecene
Humans have altered the world’s systems in terms of
the earth's biodiversity
urbanization and deforestation
all are correct
the composition of the atmosphere
Chapter 2: Are Humans Unique?
Chapter 4: Ritual and Rites of Passage
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