The Tapestry of Culture Rosman and Rubel Chapter 8 Study Guide
How do Rosman and Rubel define the economic organization of a
society?
What is the term for the process by which individuals
interpret cultural rules to their own advantage?
What two other major categories of culture do Rosman and Rubel
think that economic organization is most closely aligned
with?
What are three major categories of subsistence level societies
as far as production is concerned?
How would you describe each of the following for a hunting and
gathering culture?
population
settlements
manufacturing techniques
differentiation of tasks
How does an agricultural culture differ from a hunting and
gathering culture in terms of population and settlements?
Why must agricultural people restrain themselves from eating
their seed?
What characterizes agricultural societies in Europe and Asia
as regards the following:
technology
predominant crops
water (2 answers)
land reuse (2 answers)
What are four unforeseen consequences of agricultural
production listed by Rosman and Rubel?
What kinds of animals are kept by pastoral societies?
When a society depends almost entirely on domesticated
animals for production, what is it labeled?
What term is used to indicate the manner in which cultural
products circulate through society?
What are the three components of exchange?
What is the term that relates to the direct, immediate
exchange of objects?
What term is used to describe the simplest type of exchange
system between two sides of equal status?
What items are ceremonially exchanged among the Abelam of New
Guinea?
How does the kaiko exchange among the Maring people different
from the ritual exchange among the Abelam?
What term is used to describe the giving away and destruction
of goods by a person among the Kwakiutl who is showing his
power?
Who gives and who receives yams in the urigubu exchange
system among the Trobriand Islanders?
What is the exchange system called among the South Pacific
islanders in which red shell necklaces move in the opposite
direction from armshells?
What is a caste in India?
What are the two meanings of market?
What is the basic premise of a market system?
What does a market system depend upon?
What did rural populations become when cities grew up in
their midst and they became tied to the cities?
What is a market town?
What is the basis for small- and medium-sized Chinese
businesses in Taiwan?
In a complex capitalistic society, what stimulates production
of a product?
What term refers to goods manufactured by someone else?
What example of a community do Rosman and Rubel give to show
that religious beliefs can affect the nature of consumption?
Among Jordanian elites, who does shopping?
What term is used to refer to the replacement of one item for
another in terms of function or the reassignment of function
for one item adopted by a different culture?
