AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Marcel Mauss, Reductionism, Gift Economy
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Focus more on chapter 1 2 3 and 7 for test and the thee first. (m. sahlins) in hunter gatherer bands, only 20 hours of work a week is necessary to gather enough food. Sexual division of labour: women gather (70% of the diet, men hunt (30% of the diet). They are two different was of creating wealth: by producing more, by desiring less. We can satisfy the need of hunger: by eating rice and beans or steak and shrimps. In the western world: we valorize quantity and diversity. Among the !kung san: having enough to satisfy hunger and sharing with kin. Are not a universal measure of wealth and poverty. To be rich means to be well integrated in a community. Not all societies set the same economical priorities. Different societies use different principles to organize their economic life. Economic processes cannot be considered apart from the cultural institutions in which they are embedded.
