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GLST 290 final exam Practice Questions and
Answers (100% Pass)
be able to explain how these food strategies are affected by globalization -
Answer✔️✔️-foraging societies are extinct and agricultural systems have
grown larger and provide most of the food for most of the people in the
world today (pg. 120)
Know formalist theory and substantivist theory - Answer✔️✔️-it holds that
economic behavior and motivations vary but culture and logic used is
culturally universal= formalist theory
Melville Herskovite (1895-1963 - Answer✔️✔️-he argued that all people
exhibit economic behaviors concepts such as supply, demand, price and
money.
Marshall Sahlins - Answer✔️✔️-argues the original affluent society were
hunters and gatherers
What economic systems are in the Bible? - Answer✔️✔️-All are in the Bible
Autonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and counter hegemony - Answer✔️✔️-
ideology or movement that challenges a reigning hegemony.
What is the "weapons of the weak"? - Answer✔️✔️-includes practices such as
intentionally working more slowly as usual, breaking equipment, bags
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with rice, supposedly powerless people exert power enhance their own
survival and exerts pressure on dominant people.
What are the 4 anthropological model systems of political organization? -
Answer✔️✔️-(band, tribe, chiefdom/kingdom, and state) Be able to define
and explain each political organization.
Elman Service (1915-1996) - Answer✔️✔️-highlighted the correlation of
economic strategy and political forms.
What is kinship studies? - Answer✔️✔️-Kinship studies analyze the
structure, process, and meaning of family relationships.
Define kinship and its importance - Answer✔️✔️-Kinship is the ways in
which people selectively interpret the common human experiences of
reproduction and nurturance. Its importance is it is the basis of band and
tribal societies.
Define descent/descent systems see Fig. 8.1 - Answer✔️✔️-two types:
unilineal: 3 types patrilineal (Bible), matrilineal, duel through both sides.
cogmatic: 2 types bilateral: through both sides, Ambilineal: individual
choses a lineage upon reaching adulthood.
George Murdock (pg 158-159) - Answer✔️✔️-out of 175 unilineal cultures,
only 18 cultures were duel decent.
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Anthropologist who in 1949 documented unilineal cultures and found that
out of 175 unilineal cultures, only eighteen (10 percent) were organized in
dual descent.
relatives created through marriage. - Answer✔️✔️-Affinal kin
Define cross-cousin marriage and parallel-cousin marriage - Answer✔️✔️-
Cross cousin marriage: a preference for marriage between two cross
cousins, a cross cousin is the child of one mothers brother or father's sister.
Parallel- cousin marriage: a preference for marriage between two parallel
cousins. A parallel cousin is the child of one's parents same sex sibling
(mother's sister's child or brothers child.)
Does cousin marriages pose genetic problems? - Answer✔️✔️-There is no
evidence of genetic problems.
What are the three type of marriage exchanges? - Answer✔️✔️-Bride service,
bride wealth, dowry
What is polygyny and polyandry? - Answer✔️✔️-Polygyny: the marriage of
one man to two or more wives.
Polyandry: the marriage of one woman to two or more husbands.
· What does the Scripture say about kinship rules and structures? -
Answer✔️✔️-It says that kinship behavior is more important than kinship
rules or structure.
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GLST 290 final exam Practice Questions and
Answers (100% Pass)
be able to explain how these food strategies are affected by globalization -
Answer✔️✔️-foraging societies are extinct and agricultural systems have
grown larger and provide most of the food for most of the people in the
world today (pg. 120)
Know formalist theory and substantivist theory - Answer✔️✔️-it holds that
economic behavior and motivations vary but culture and logic used is
culturally universal= formalist theory
Melville Herskovite (1895-1963 - Answer✔️✔️-he argued that all people
exhibit economic behaviors concepts such as supply, demand, price and
money.
Marshall Sahlins - Answer✔️✔️-argues the original affluent society were
hunters and gatherers
What economic systems are in the Bible? - Answer✔️✔️-All are in the Bible
Autonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and counter hegemony - Answer✔️✔️-
ideology or movement that challenges a reigning hegemony.
What is the "weapons of the weak"? - Answer✔️✔️-includes practices such as
intentionally working more slowly as usual, breaking equipment, bags
1
, ©SOPHIABENNETT@2024-2025 Sunday, August 25, 2024 2:42 PM
with rice, supposedly powerless people exert power enhance their own
survival and exerts pressure on dominant people.
What are the 4 anthropological model systems of political organization? -
Answer✔️✔️-(band, tribe, chiefdom/kingdom, and state) Be able to define
and explain each political organization.
Elman Service (1915-1996) - Answer✔️✔️-highlighted the correlation of
economic strategy and political forms.
What is kinship studies? - Answer✔️✔️-Kinship studies analyze the
structure, process, and meaning of family relationships.
Define kinship and its importance - Answer✔️✔️-Kinship is the ways in
which people selectively interpret the common human experiences of
reproduction and nurturance. Its importance is it is the basis of band and
tribal societies.
Define descent/descent systems see Fig. 8.1 - Answer✔️✔️-two types:
unilineal: 3 types patrilineal (Bible), matrilineal, duel through both sides.
cogmatic: 2 types bilateral: through both sides, Ambilineal: individual
choses a lineage upon reaching adulthood.
George Murdock (pg 158-159) - Answer✔️✔️-out of 175 unilineal cultures,
only 18 cultures were duel decent.
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Anthropologist who in 1949 documented unilineal cultures and found that
out of 175 unilineal cultures, only eighteen (10 percent) were organized in
dual descent.
relatives created through marriage. - Answer✔️✔️-Affinal kin
Define cross-cousin marriage and parallel-cousin marriage - Answer✔️✔️-
Cross cousin marriage: a preference for marriage between two cross
cousins, a cross cousin is the child of one mothers brother or father's sister.
Parallel- cousin marriage: a preference for marriage between two parallel
cousins. A parallel cousin is the child of one's parents same sex sibling
(mother's sister's child or brothers child.)
Does cousin marriages pose genetic problems? - Answer✔️✔️-There is no
evidence of genetic problems.
What are the three type of marriage exchanges? - Answer✔️✔️-Bride service,
bride wealth, dowry
What is polygyny and polyandry? - Answer✔️✔️-Polygyny: the marriage of
one man to two or more wives.
Polyandry: the marriage of one woman to two or more husbands.
· What does the Scripture say about kinship rules and structures? -
Answer✔️✔️-It says that kinship behavior is more important than kinship
rules or structure.
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