ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Marcel Mauss, Social Fact, Ecological Anthropology
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Kids were trying to create a sense of a social relationship through asking for things. The article written by debbie sheds light on the social practices in botswana compared to us (add more notes on the article here) Wrote essai sur le don (aka, the gift: form and reason for exchange in archaic societies) He was a structuralist social and cultural systems have elements that are functionally related. Society is like an organism, when one part changes, the rest adapts too. It is concerned with the overall society, social structure, everything is harmoniously linked together. If one part changes, everything else will change. The exchange of objects can create and build up social relationships. We can learn a lot about cultures by looking at how they give things. There"s no such thing as a free gift. What power resides in the object given that causes its recipient to pay it back? .
