If you are on the lookout for a series quizzes to help you in your anthropology finals look no further. The test below is the eighth in the series of tests and is aimed at keeping your memory fresh and ensuring you pass your finals. Give it a try and keep an eye out for the ninth one.
Tribal societies
Feudal states
Imagined communities
Chiefdoms
Agrarian, preindustrial states
A person who holds a permanent political office
A heredity ruler
A person who creates his reputation through entrepreneurship and generosity to others
A leader who avoids excessive displays of generosity
A leader who has tremendous power because he is regarded as divine
Warfare is conducted by professional armies
Political institutions are maintained totally separate from economic institutions
Social control is maintained mostly through physical coercion
Economic, political, and religious activities are often embedded in one another
All political power is based on religion
Rank ascribed at birth
Culturally valued personal attributes
The number of possessions and their monetary value
The amount of labor one can extract from spouse and children
Genealogical closeness to apical ancestors
They maintain power by maintaining strong ties with the commoner class
They have inherited special access to strategic resources
They maintain control by conquering foreign territories
They have no means of forcing people to follow their decisions
They are the most dominant males in the largest, most powerful descent group
A village council
The baby-boomers
High school freshmen
The chicago white sox
The poeple in this anthropology class
A village council
The baby-boomers
High school freshmen
The chicago white sox
The pople in this anthropology class
Gender differences in terms of access to resources
Generosity, even at the fiscal level
Rapport between the elites and commoners
Stratification
The authority of charismatic leaders
A band
A state
A clan
A society with segmentary lineage organization
A tribe
Sociopolitical strategies
Social controls
Cultural capital
Universal controls
Sorcery
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