ANTH 1102 1ST Edition Lecture 22 Outline of Last Lecture I Subsistence II You can t get something for nothing III Costs input factors IV More examples of Cost or Input Factors V Which is better Outline of Current Lecture VI Definitions VII Karl Polanyi VIII Kula Ring IX The myth of barter Graeber 2011 X Scheme of reciprocities Current Lecture Economics and Anthropology Dr Bram Tucker Definitions Economics Decisions and behaviors about resources Anthropology Study of human diversity Economic Anthropology Diversity of people s decisions and behaviors regarding resources Karl Polanyi Formalism Economizing within constraints Money Maximization Substantivism Subsistence behavior social jural moral value These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Production consumption exchange investment Kula Ring Malinowski First to do in depth ethnography Wrote The Gif Asked Are Kula valuables primitive money Mauss 1925 Mauss Vaygu a valuables Symbolic of sex have a spirit to them travel in circle rings Soulava shell clockwise trade Mwali arm band counterclockwise Vaygu a is not fungible cannot exchange for goods or services They are used for stable partnerships Given with a solemn performance The spirit of the gift There is a limited number available Their social history determines value Cannot hold onto too long Trade of unequal value o Always keep the debt going Only about honor credit prestige Exchange to build social relations NOT material gain Wealth giving resources away not keeping them The myth of barter Graeber 2011 In the days before money coincidence of wants Before money there was barter Money evolved to solve coincidence of wants But Anthropologists haven t found any barter economics One barters with strangers enemies not neighbors Scheme of reciprocities Generalized reciprocity A B Ex barter purchase Negative reciprocity A Ex Nursing birthday gift food sharing Balanced reciprocity A B B Ex haggling usury theft raiding Morality Kinship distance Family friends generalized reciprocity Strangers balance reciprocity o Capitalism assumes we are all strangers everything is 50 50 not 100 0 Enemies negative reciprocity
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