GLST 290 final exam Question and
answers verified to pass 2025/2026
be able to explain how these food strategies are affected by globalization - correct 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 - correct answer ✔it holds that economic behavior and
motivations vary but culture and logic used is culturally universal= formalist theory
Melville Herskovite (1895-1963 - correct answer ✔he argued that all people exhibit economic
behaviors concepts such as supply, demand, price and money.
Marshall Sahlins - correct answer ✔argues the original affluent society were hunters and gatherers
What economic systems are in the Bible? - correct answer ✔All are in the Bible
Autonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and counter hegemony - correct answer ✔ideology or movement that
challenges a reigning hegemony.
What is the "weapons of the weak"? - correct answer ✔includes practices such as intentionally working
more slowly as usual, breaking equipment, bags 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? - correct answer ✔(band,
tribe, chiefdom/kingdom, and state) Be able to define and explain each political organization.
Elman Service (1915-1996) - correct answer ✔highlighted the correlation of economic strategy and
political forms.
, What is kinship studies? - correct answer ✔Kinship studies analyze the structure, process, and meaning
of family relationships.
Define kinship and its importance - correct 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 - correct 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) - correct answer ✔out of 175 unilineal cultures, only 18 cultures were
duel decent.
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. - correct answer ✔Affinal kin
Define cross-cousin marriage and parallel-cousin marriage - correct 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? - correct answer ✔There is no evidence of genetic
problems.
answers verified to pass 2025/2026
be able to explain how these food strategies are affected by globalization - correct 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 - correct answer ✔it holds that economic behavior and
motivations vary but culture and logic used is culturally universal= formalist theory
Melville Herskovite (1895-1963 - correct answer ✔he argued that all people exhibit economic
behaviors concepts such as supply, demand, price and money.
Marshall Sahlins - correct answer ✔argues the original affluent society were hunters and gatherers
What economic systems are in the Bible? - correct answer ✔All are in the Bible
Autonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and counter hegemony - correct answer ✔ideology or movement that
challenges a reigning hegemony.
What is the "weapons of the weak"? - correct answer ✔includes practices such as intentionally working
more slowly as usual, breaking equipment, bags 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? - correct answer ✔(band,
tribe, chiefdom/kingdom, and state) Be able to define and explain each political organization.
Elman Service (1915-1996) - correct answer ✔highlighted the correlation of economic strategy and
political forms.
, What is kinship studies? - correct answer ✔Kinship studies analyze the structure, process, and meaning
of family relationships.
Define kinship and its importance - correct 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 - correct 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) - correct answer ✔out of 175 unilineal cultures, only 18 cultures were
duel decent.
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. - correct answer ✔Affinal kin
Define cross-cousin marriage and parallel-cousin marriage - correct 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? - correct answer ✔There is no evidence of genetic
problems.
