Author Question: Which of the following statements about potlatch is not correct? a. It is a form of conspicuous ... (Read 114 times)

bobthebuilder · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

Which of the following statements about potlatch is not correct?

a. It is a form of conspicuous consumption.
b. It was hosted by chiefs who had built up huge displays of surplus.
c. It was ecologically adaptive in an area of alternating scarcity and abundance.
d. It was a form of extreme religious economics.

Question 2

To help resolve problems of global structural violence, which of the following values and cultural motivations would not be needed?

a. A xenophobic policy that would work to help countries seal their national borders and begin to work to improvethe lives of their citizenry only
b. A worldview that sees humanity as part of the natural world, rather than superior to it
c. A sense of social responsibility that recognizes that no individual, people, or state has the right to expropriateresource s at the expense of others
d. An awareness of how important supportive ties are for individuals, such as seen in kinship or other associationsin the world's traditional societies
e. A sense of value for the natural resources that humans have harnessed for millennia in order to survive