ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Marcel Mauss, White People
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Economy: all economies distributes goods equally, what organizes labour in a society, mauss observed the gifts in an economy, reciprocity makes family bonds, to receive more than one that one can pay tends to obligate that person to have power, hendry pg 65 hendry talks about generalized reciprocity is the friendships with family and friends, the moral being is to be considered to be someone to honour his or her debts, to fail to be honourable is to fail to repay debts in many kinds, we have a way of shunning people, shaming and other things to make sure that people repay their debts, reciprocity is essential to neighbours, family, etc to form bonds, there are different types of goods produced in a given society.
