ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Haida Gwaii, Trobriand Islands, Economic Anthropology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

Chapter preview: what is economic anthropology, how do anthropologists study economic systems, how do economies work, how and why are goods exchanged, found in both industrial and nonindustrial societies. Each group of people, each distinct culture, and all societies operate within an. Economic anthropology economic system that regulates the production, distribution, and consumption of goods. Subsistence patterns are an important part of any economy, but economic systems encompass more than what we have discussed to date. We will examine the systems of exchange, redistribution, and consumption in this chapter. within economic behaviours and institutions produced from these. It is important to understand noneconomic considerations, such as culture, embedded. Economic systems: means of producing, distributing, and consuming goods, not separate from other spheres of culture, the process cannot be understood unless the culture is considered. Trobriand islanders: yam exchange symbolizes support and in uence, yams are akin to a bank account, yam exchange is present in trobriand society today.