ANTH 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Infant Mortality, Pierre Bourdieu, Credit Card Debt
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Class: a system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of a society"s resource. Based on sharing resources to ensure group success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence within or among groups. Reciprocity: the exchange of resources, goods, and services, among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties. In amish communities: people gather together to raise a barn. Reciprocity for favors, like sharing lunch then you might expect the person to give you food back at another time. Ranked societies: a group where wealth is not stratified but prestige and status are. Chiefs do not have a lot of wealth, but does receive gifts, and the chief gives the to group members. The act of gift giving is called redistribution. His rank is not reinforced through an accumulation of wealth, but through generosity and reciprocity. Potlatch: elaborate redistribution ceremony practiced among the kwakiutl of the pacific.
