The general principle that people prefer to carry out activities at least burdensome activities with a minimal expenditure of time and energy is known as
a. the Law of Least Effort
b. Murphy's Law
c. the Law of Declining Returns to Labor
d. Parkinson's Law
Question 2Which of the following is a pastoral society?
a. the Nuer of eastern Africa
b. the Kpelle
c. the Yanomama
d. medieval England
Question 3Which of the following animals have been herded in pastoral societies?
a. sheep
b. goats
c. camels
d. cattle
e. all of these
Question 4Which of the following tends to be a prominent feature of the state level of political evolution?
a. centralization of power in a few hands
b. monopolization of the means of violence
c. expropriation of surplus production
d. an ideology for the legitimation of power
e. all of these
Question 5According to Thomas Barfield, pastoralists are commonly found in which of the following world regions
b. the Asian steppe from the Black Sea to Mongolia
c. the Tibetan plateau and neighboring mountain regions
d. Central Eurasia
e. all of these
Question 6The Basseri pastoralists studied by Fredrik Barth
a. have a strong dislike for agriculture
b. subsist entirely by the use of animal products
c. live in sub-Saharan Africa
d. all of the above
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