Week 6 Quiz

In the illustrative exchange set, a close friend drives you to the airport at 5 a.m., and neither of you mentions repaying it. Which kind of exchange is this?

Select one.

• Generalized reciprocity, because no count is kept
• Balanced reciprocity, because a ride is repaid with a ride
• Negative reciprocity, because one side gives more
• Market exchange, because a ride has a price

Which transaction from the illustrative exchange set is keyed as redistribution?

Select one.

• Two roommates take turns buying the week's groceries.
• A club collects dues and the treasurer pays for a dinner for all.
• You buy a phone charger at a store for its posted price.
• A grandparent pays for school supplies with no return expected.

At the running fieldwork site, an illustrative farmers' market, 33 of the 50 coded exchanges were market exchange. What percent of the coded exchanges was market exchange?

Select one.

• 33 percent, the count itself
• 17 percent, because 50 − 33 = 17
• 66 percent, because 33 ÷ 50 × 100 = 66
• 50 percent, because 50 exchanges were coded

In the illustrative market's coded tally, market exchange was 66 percent and generalized reciprocity was 16 percent. How should the gap between them be stated?

Select one.

• 50 percent, because 66 − 16 = 50
• 82 percentage points, because 66 + 16 = 82
• 16 percentage points, the smaller share
• 50 percentage points, because 66 − 16 = 50

Which statement matches how Malinowski (1922) recorded the kula of the 1910s?

Select one.

• Valuables were held for a time and passed on for prestige and partnership.
• Islanders carried shells around the ring to sell them at a profit.
• Valuables were collected by one chief and handed out to everyone.
• Each valuable was kept for good by the first person who received it.

Mauss's essay on the gift argues that a gift carries three obligations. Which list names them?

Select one.

• To buy, to sell, and to bargain
• To give, to receive, and to give back
• To give, to refuse, and to forget
• To collect, to store, and to hand out

Canada banned the potlatch under the Indian Act. In what year was the potlatch law dropped?

Select one.

• 1885
• 1921
• 1951
• 1990

While coding the illustrative market's exchanges, an observer records a vendor handing a toddler a free plum before the parent buys a basket. The plum could be a gift or a sales move. What should the observer do with it?

Select one.

• Count it as generalized reciprocity, since the plum was free
• Count it as market exchange, since a basket was then sold
• Count it twice, once under each possible type
• Set it aside and discuss it rather than force it into a type

A transit card pays bus fares in one city and can buy nothing else. Which kind of money is it?

Select one.

• Special-purpose money, valid for some exchanges only
• General-purpose money, usable for nearly any exchange
• Redistribution, because a city runs the buses
• Negative reciprocity, because the rider pays more

In two-column field notes from the illustrative market, "two vendors trade a box of peaches for two loaves of bread" belongs in the observed column, and "balanced reciprocity between vendors" belongs in the column for what it might mean.

True or false.

• True
• False