Week 5 Quiz

In the illustrative subsistence comparison table, the foraging community has 1 person per square kilometre and the horticultural community has 20. How many times the foraging density is the horticultural density?

Select one.

• 20 times, because 20 ÷ 1 = 20
• 19 times, because 20 − 1 = 19
• One twentieth, because 1 ÷ 20 = 0.05
• 200 times, because the intensive town is 200

In the illustrative subsistence comparison table, the foraging group makes 60 settlement moves per decade. A decade is 10 years. How many times a year does the foraging group move?

Select one.

• 60 times a year, the same as the table
• 6 times a year, because 60 ÷ 10 = 6
• 600 times a year, because 60 × 10 = 600
• 50 times a year, because 60 − 10 = 50

In the illustrative subsistence comparison table, the horticultural density is 20 people per square kilometre and the intensive agricultural density is 200. How many times the horticultural density is the intensive agricultural density?

Select one.

• 180 times, because 200 − 20 = 180
• 2 times, because both numbers start with a 2
• 10 times, because 200 ÷ 20 = 10
• One tenth, because 20 ÷ 200 = 0.1

Neighbors on one street tend vegetable beds with trowels and hoes, and each year they leave one bed to rest and recover. Which subsistence strategy does this gardening most resemble?

Select one.

• Foraging, because the neighbors gather what grows
• Pastoralism, because the beds move with the seasons
• Intensive agriculture, because the beds are permanent
• Horticulture, because it is gardening with hand tools and resting ground

Which statement matches how this course describes the shift to food production?

Select one.

• Domestication began independently in several world regions after the end of the last ice age.
• Farming was invented once, in one region, and every other people copied it.
• Domestication began on one keyed date that every region shares.
• Food production replaced foraging everywhere at the same moment.

A family herds sheep and goats and moves the herd between valley and hill pastures as the seasons change. Which subsistence strategy does this describe?

Select one.

• Horticulture
• Pastoralism
• Foraging
• Industrial and postindustrial economies

At the running fieldwork site, an illustrative farmers' market, the family-run stall sells from the family's own farm with permanent fields to buyers who mostly live by wages and buy their food. How does this week's model read the stall?

Select one.

• Foraging meeting horticulture, because the produce is fresh
• One strategy only, because a market sells food
• Intensive agriculture meeting the industrial and postindustrial pattern
• An earlier stage of farming that the buyers have left behind

A student reads the model table and notices how a group's way of getting food shapes how crowded its land is, how often it moves, and how many people live together. Which habit from the anthropological perspective is the student using?

Select one.

• Ethnocentrism, judging the groups by the student's own standards
• Moral relativism, refusing any judgment across cultures
• Enculturation, learning one's own culture growing up
• Holism, looking at how the parts of a way of life fit together

Which statements agree with how this course teaches the subsistence comparison table and the five strategies? Select every statement that applies.

Select every option that applies.

• The five strategies are a model for comparing, and real communities mix strategies.
• The table's whole numbers are engineered for teaching, not measured from a real people.
• Every society climbs the strategies in order, from foraging up to industry.
• Every real foraging people lives at exactly 1 person per square kilometre.

Calling a foraging society "primitive" because it does not farm judges that society by the standards of one's own culture, which is ethnocentrism.

True or false.

• True
• False