ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cash Crop, Coffee Bean, Gift Economy
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Gift/commodity: commodity: anything intended for exchange. , commodity phase: in/out, commodity candidacy: sacred objects, used underwear, garbage, human organs, commodity context: markets, factories, auctions, birthday parties, paige west talks about a gift economy versus a commodity economy. Commodity ecumene: transcultural network producers, distributors and consumers. , the process of coffee moving from one place to the other, appadurai talks about how objects move from place to place. Within each of those places, they take on a different social life. That is, the value changes as it moves through each of these phases: production: technical knowledge, paige west talks about the technical knowledge around coffee production in a village called maimafu, shaved coffee preserves biological diversity. Rather than cutting down a bunch of trees, the coffee is interspersed within the forest, which allows for ants, bee pollination, fruit, and furthermore, is better for the soil and environment: distribution: paths/diversions/enclaves, consumption: active, social, dynamic.
