ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Norm (Social), Social Fund, Profit Motive
20 Apr 2016
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Economy: system of production, distribution and consumption: modes of production capitalist or kin-based, means of production land, labour, technology. Labour o age and gender: individual and collective, generalized and specialized. Capitalist mode; industrial societies: alienation of workers: means of production; end product; impersonal relations. Rent fund: not just money paid for use of property, little choice but to pay, not always money, could be working or product arrangement, polyani"s classification system. Distribution of an exchange: reciprocity, redistribution, market exchange, all found in most societies. Generalized: among closely related people family and close friends (value and reciprocation time is not specified) Balanced: friends, extended family, neighbours (more or less equal value and a reasonable time frame) Negative: strangers; outsiders (want best of deal, but the friendship is not really the focus nor the concern) Importance of delayed exchange (long term) giving something back immediately is considered rude because the reciprocator ends the obligation and therefore closing the relationship.
