ANTH 100A Lecture : ANTH 100 Economics as a Cultural System.docx
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According to the slow food movement, agriculture is about relationships (between humans and between humans and the environment) industrial agriculture focuses mainly on production. Food is about a lot more than subsistence. A pleasure comes from growing own food = becomes a way of life. Economic studies parts of production exchange, consumption. If it was, we would just eat the same thing every day = we don"t = we relate it to culture economics appear to be naturally occurring systems with their own laws and patterns of development. In an anthropological perspective economies are fundamentally cultural learned (as is kinships, as in languages everything) Reciprocity: giving with the obligation to return equal value. Redistribution: group giving to one person or office which is later redistributed to all or some of the group. Market exchange: buying and selling goods via a centralized market: reciprocity: Generalized all help together, to create relations (ex.
