ANTH 250 Chapter 7 Questions and Answers
The elaborate Hawaiian cosmology, involving a creation myth, temples, annual rituals of human sacrifice, divine kings, rigid taboos, and feasting, was:
an elite construction, designed by and for the elite.
On Lamotrek, as throughout much of the Paci...
ANTH 250 Chapter 7 Questions and
Answers
The elaborate Hawaiian cosmology, involving a creation myth, temples, annual rituals of
human sacrifice, divine kings, rigid taboos, and feasting, was: - answer an elite
construction, designed by and for the elite.
On Lamotrek, as throughout much of the Pacific Island region, the most important food
plant in the diet is, by weight: - answer taro.
Micronesian navigation systems depended on: - answer a formal body of empirical
and mythical knowledge that included an elaborate star chart.
From a cultural materialist perspective, Hawaii would be a likely place for chiefdoms to
develop because: - answer it has rich environmental resources.
The Polynesian system of mana: - answer provided supernatural support for chiefly
status.
Two headed Hawaiian child: - answer child with two fathers in a punalua co-spouse
relationship.
The chiefs on Tikopia derived their authority from: - answer their religious position as
hereditary representatives of important ancestral deities.
Modern physical anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology demonstrates conclusively
that the Pacific islands were settled by: - answer skilled navigators from Southeast
Asia.
The curiously curved shell fishhook used by Pacific islanders: - answer was actually
more effective than European-style steel fishhooks.
Pacific island societies were aristocracies based on: - answer belief in the inherent
superiority of a line of descent.
The "Work of the Gods" on Tikopia: - answer rituals for island-wide welfare controlled
by highest chief.
The paramount chief of a complex chiefdom, in comparison to a district chief or the chief
of a simple chiefdom: - answer is likely to have a power of ten greater power.
Archaeological research on the Polynesian outlier island of Tikopia revealed that after
3,000 years of continuous human occupation: - answer the land area expanded,
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