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Midterm Review - Political Anthropology
Midterm Review - Political Anthropology
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1
Which is
not
true of Lewis Henry Morgan’s social organization model?
Kinship is an important deciding factor of categorization.
It is ethnocentric.
Subsistence patterns are taken into consideration.
It primarily considered genetics.
2
According to Elman Service, what is the defining quality of the tribe?
Sodalities
Horticulture
Egalitarian
Population of hundreds to thousands
3
All or virtually all religions and cults begin in opposition to some sort of dominant power
True
False
4
In cases where religion plays an important role, the _________ and _________ are usually kept seperate.
Secular/priestly bureaucracy
Inca/Mayans
Pope/bureaucracy
Theocracy/ divine Kings
5
The _____ were the only contemporary group to support Frazer’s theory.
Inca
Shilluk of Sadan
Plains Indians
Maya
6
Class struggle was implicit in _________writings whereas ideas were fully worked out by ____.
Karl Marx/Frederick Engels
Karl Marx/Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan/Frederick Engels
Frederick Engels/Karl Marx
7
Factors singled out as directly causal for the development of early states:
War or the threat of war
Conquest and influence of previously existing states
Population growth/population pressure
All of the above
8
Power obtained based on the direct capabilities of an individual, such as special knowledge, skills, or charisma is:
Independent power
Dependent power
Legitimacy
Coercion
9
"States are born in blood and war" is an example of Social Darwinism external conflict theory.
False
True
10
A Polynesian big man throwing a pig feast; a British king being born of proper lineage; these types of leaders:
demonstrate predestination
Demonstrate legitimacy
Demonstrate structural functionalism
Demonstrate dependent power
11
What is the primary economic exchange in band and tribal societies?
Exchange of individual resource ownership
Concentrations of wealth and distribution
Reciprocity
Human labor
12
What is Bronislaw Malinowski's most well-known contribution to the field of anthropology?
Process theory
Multilineal cultural evolution
Participant observation
Neo-evolutionism
13
The main difference between centralized and uncentralized systems is that:
Uncentralized systems are hunter-gatherers
Centralized systems are patriarchal
Uncentralized ones have a fragmentary power system
Centralized systems are capitalistic
14
The word teleology was
Prime force for only individuals
Considered an accepted word
Incorporated into biology and physics
None of the above
15
Which is
not
an objection to the concept of the tribe, according to the Lewellen text?
It is not sufficiently different from bands/chiefdoms
The population size should be larger
It is described too generally
It suggests a degree of social integration that rarely exists
16
Uncentralized, egalitarian societies primarily depend on what for stability?
Potlatches
Coercion
Redistribution
Consensual power
17
A group that goes through initiation together and forms a non-kin unit passing through the other life phases is called:
Cross-age group
Clan
Segmentary lineage
Age-set system
18
The potlatch is:
A system of reciprocity
A ritual dance of the Kwakiutl
A sodality
An example of centralized redistribution
19
Structural-functionalist causality was of Aristotelian causality.
True
False
20
Neo-evolutionists were American scholars who revived the earlier British emphasis on unilineal cultural evolution.
True
False
21
Negative feedback is a small deviation which set in motion a process of increasing change.
True
False
22
Types of religious revitalization movements include all BUT:
Cargo Cult
Ghost Dance
Millenarian
Messianic
23
Structural-functionalist can be reduced to four words or phrases. One being:
Open system
Technological
Africa
Europe
24
One property that is NOT true of symbols according to David Kertzer is:
Condensation of meaning
Symbols are multivocal
Symbols are possessed of ambiguity
Symbols are dependent on negative feedback
25
Who saw social systems as different parts performing their functions in order to keep the whole in homeostasis?
Malinowski
Morgan
Foucault
Radcliffe-Brown
26
Positive feedback is the process by which a stable system minimizes any deviation from equilibrium.
True
False
27
Which of the following is an example of a chiefdom?
The !Kung
The Inca
The Kwakiutl
The Yanomamo
28
_________ are concerned with how social structures meet the biological needs of individuals.
Functionalists
Neo evolutionists
Structural functionalists
Social darwinists
29
Which of the following is a centralized system?
The !Kung
The Inca
The Eskimo
The Yanomamo
