ANTH 202 Lecture 6: ANTH 202 - lectures notes 6 to 9 (2015)
8 Feb 2017
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Economies and their modes of production10/21/2015 2:09:00 pm. Exchange: transfer of goods or money between people or institution. Modes of production: the dominant way of making a living in a culture. Economic anthropology versus economics (cid:120) the subject matter of economic anthropology is much wider. All ways of making a living, not just modern capitalists. (cid:120) anthropologists" collect qualitative data and quantitative data (cid:120) rely on fieldwork and participant observation rather than analyzing. Canned statistical datasets or census information (cid:120) anthropologists believe it is important to gather emic data in order to understand people"s own concepts and categories related to making a living, not just applying western concepts and categories. Globalization and the world economy (cid:120) research how global and local systems are linked (cid:120) global trade has created a global division of labor or world economy: countries are competing unequally for wealth.
