Deck 5: Political Systems

Question 1

Shan live in:

A) Trinidad
B) New Guinea
C) the Trobriand Islands
D) Truk
E) Thailand

Answer 1

E

Question 2

People start working for wages when:

A) they have no alternative
B) when the government forces them to
C) when household production is impossible
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The main purpose of the revolutions of the 18th century in Europe and America was to:

A) create governments friendly to capitalism
B) establish democracy
C) establish parliamentary systems of government
D) establish freedom of religion
E) eliminate poverty

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Acephalous means:

A) very smart
B) a kind of shell fish
C) octopus and squids
D) headless
E) royalty

Question 5

The most important thing about egalitarian systems is that:

A) everyone is equal
B) everyone can vote
C) everyone is paid the same
D) everyone has equal access to resources
E) everyone is treated fairly

Question 6

From the Trobriand point of view, men give yams to their sisters because:

A) they did all the work of producing them
B) they belong to the lineage that owns the land
C) brothers should take care of sisters
D) the sisters have all the pigs
E) the chieftain tells them to

Question 7

The yams a man eats belong to:

A) his wife
B) his sister
C) his mother
D) none of the above
E) all of the above

Question 8

The people Bronislaw Malinowski studied lived in:

A) New Guinea
B) Thailand
C) Truk
D) the Trobriand Islands
E) Burma

Question 9

Kachin people live in:

A) Burma
B) Truk
C) New Guinea
D) the Trobriand Islands
E) Thailand

Question 10

The only way to keep stratified systems going is by:

A) consensus
B) redistribution
C) democratic elections
D) force
E) reciprocity

Question 11

Stratified systems are unfair because:

A) most people have no access to resources
B) there is a ruling class
C) there is a class system
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 12

The institutional means for controlling stratified societies are:

A) natural
B) states
C) chiefs
D) lineages
E) kinship

Question 13

Ruling classes prefer mind control to force because:

A) it is less brutal
B) it is less destructive
C) it is less expensive
D) it involves education
E) it emphasizes faith based solutions to problems

Question 14

For anthropologists, hegemony means:

A) the income derived from hedge funds
B) the power of one country over another
C) the power of the church in politics
D) the power of the dominant class to control the cultural code
E) the power of schools to control students

Question 15

In the ancient Inca system people worked the land for:

A) the church
B) the state
C) themselves
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 16

In the ancient Inca system, the roads were built by:

A) the contractor who bid the lowest for the work
B) forced labor
C) volunteer workers
D) heavy equipment
E) people the state hired

Question 17

Systems of rank are associated with which form of exchange?

A) reciprocity
B) redistribution
C) the market
D) capitalism
E) socialism

Question 18

Egalitarian systems are associated with which form of exchange?

A) reciprocity
B) redistribution
C) the market
D) capitalism
E) socialism

Question 19

There are as many positions of prestige as people capable of filling them in which kind of system?

A) democracy
B) egalitarian
C) rank
D) stratified
E) state

Question 20

In rank systems there are:

A) fewer positions of prestige than people capable of filling them
B) as many positions of prestige as people capable of filling them
C) more positions of prestige than people capable of filling them
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 21

Given the choice, people usually prefer to work for wages rather than to work in households.

Question 22

Capitalism expands as more people choose to work for wages.

Question 23

Surplus labor is the source of profits.

Question 24

Households only produce a surplus if they are forced to.

Question 25

Capitalism is a dynamic system.

Question 26

It's always more advantageous to work for yourself than for someone else.

Question 27

After they lost to the Communists in China, the Nationalists started trading opium in Southeast Asia.

Question 28

The U.S. government stopped their allies, the Nationalist Chinese, from trading drugs.

Question 29

Myanmar is the real name for Burma.

Question 30

Burma is ruled by a military dictatorship.

Question 31

When Shan people had the opportunity to make swiddens for themselves, they did not work for wages.

Question 32

Capitalism requires no government.

Question 33

Capitalism is a natural system.

Question 34

Capitalism is created and maintained by governments.

Question 35

Economics and politics are linked.

Question 36

The Golden Rule is a great idea but it can't work in practice.

Question 37

Without rulers, the strongest people take over.

Question 38

In egalitarian groups everyone has equal access to resources.

Question 39

Lisu are egalitarian.

Question 40

Shan are egalitarian.

Question 41

Americans are egalitarian.

Question 42

Stratified systems can be egalitarian.

Question 43

Systems of rank are based on unequal access to resources.

Question 44

Trobriand islanders have patrilocal post-marital residence.

Question 45

Trobriand islanders have patrilineal lineages.

Question 46

Stratified systems are fragile because they are unfair.

Question 47

Ruling classes prefer mind control to force.

Question 48

Ruling elites always consolidate their power to become states.

Question 49

There are ethnographic examples of the collapse of stratified societies without states to control them.

Question 50

Stratified systems without states immediately collapse.

Question 51

Kachin chieftains control force.

Question 52

Lisu people live in harmony with each other.

Question 53

Lisu people are egalitarian.

Question 54

In redistributive systems the central person has the most power.

Question 55

List the three forms of political systems:

Question 56

List four anthropologists mentioned in this chapter:

Question 57

List two advantages of redistributive systems:

Question 58

List the two classes in any stratified system:

Question 59

List the two ways of ensuring the ruling class's privileged access to resources:

Question 60

Discuss how governments make labor available for capitalist firms when there was none available before.

Question 61

Discuss the role of force and choice in the development of capitalism.

Question 62

Discuss the characteristics of egalitarian, rank and stratified systems of political relations and how they are related to systems of exchange.

Question 63

Why do stratified systems always have classes?

Question 64

Discuss the role of force in stratification.