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Questions
1. Define this concept in exactly two strong sentences. (first sentence = define the term; second sentence = provide an example from course a reading or lecture.) "Cultural Biography of a Thing"
2. Define this concept in exactly two strong sentences. (first sentence = define the term; second sentence = provide an example from course a reading or lecture.) "Social Life of a Thing
3. Define this concept in exactly two strong sentences. (first sentence = define the term; second sentence = provide an example from course a reading or lecture.) "Commodity Chain"
4. Define this concept in exactly two strong sentences. (first sentence = define the term; second sentence = provide an example from course a reading or lecture.) "Commodification"
5. "_______________" is defined as "an economic system characterized by private ownership (generally of the means of production)."
6. "_______________" is defined as "the global spread of free market capitalism."
7. Bohannon's discussion of how Tiv (Nigeria) make "Spheres of Exchange" describes three levels. What are the names of each sphere and what are the goods in each sphere. Please list from top down.
8. For Tiv, to exchange goods downwards is positive
true or false?
9. Kopytoff discusses commodity pathway diversion by using the British Crown Jewels as an example because... (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
A. they bring happiness and thus exemplify "utilitarianism"
B. they exemplify imperialism and colonialism
C. they are priceless and so cannot be a commodity because they lack actual value
D. they began as commodities (jewels) but, because of what they became, they are no longer mere commodities
E. they are so socially significant they cannot become commodities; they are "singularized"
10. Kopytoff uses an example of a Suku hut in former-Zaire to illustrate... (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
A. a cultural biography of a thing
B. a social life of a thing
C. how use changes but perceptions do not
D. how use does not change but perceptions do
E. how both use and perceptions change
11. Initially the difference between ale and beer was that... (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
A. ale did not contain hops but beer did
B. ale was primarily brewed for "auto-consumption"
C. ale not a significant commodity because it was mostly domestic
D. beer became more of a regional commodity because it lasted longer and thus be transported farther; eventually leading to it becoming a global commodity
E. to get off "scot-free" or to "take someone down a peg" both required beer
12. Beer has been culturally important for over 4,000 years. Predictably, perceptions of beer have been very different across space and time. For example, (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
A. Pharaonic Egyptians (and Elizabethan British) valued beer because it had no risks of transmitting water-borne illness
B. Babylonians valued tavern-culture and viewed beer as so socially important they codified laws about its production and sale-e.g. selling weak or adulterated beer was punishable by death by drowning
C. Romans appreciated beer more than wine and viewed it as inseparable from religious observance of pre-Christian rites.
D. The Women's Christian Temperance Movement in Evanston was instrumental in shaping US perceptions that beer was an "intoxicant" and therefore should be illegal
E. Currently, because of the American craft brew explosion, Busch Light officially stopped being considered beet in 2007.
13. The "Cultural Biography" of ale shows... (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
A. its sale, distribution, and cost was among the first formally regulated commodities
B. it was often superior to drinking water
C. it was produced for auto-consumption, regional trade, and global trade.
D. it was, for millennia across space and time, largely produced by women
E. it was, across space and time, mostly consumed in private
14. The "Social Life" of rice shows that many traditional aspects of Jola life have become increasingly difficult to maintain. These include... (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
A. Ritual, which has declined due to fewer initiations
B. Health, which has declined due to a increased consumption of commodity foods
C. Profit, there are fewer capitalist opportunities
D. Ecology, the West African species of rice is under thread because fewer people plant it
E. Constructs of time, rice painting and harvesting structures time
15. According to Davidson, rice farming is about a whole lot more than just rice... studying rice farming also requires understanding
A. ritual-rice was an important ritual currency
B. ecology-manual rice farming helped prevent erosion
C. trade-rice was exchanged for gold historically
D. gender-rice production was an exclusively male domain
E. migration-labor is leaving the rice-growing areas as people move to cities
16. Davidson argues that, for many Jola rice farmers, production matters more than work.
True or false