CAS AN 101 Lecture Notes - Occupy Wall Street, Marcel Mauss, Gift Economy

• School: Boston University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: CAS AN 101
• Professor: Lia Calhoun

Document Summary

We have to understand it as a product of its time. An economic system = an organized arrangement for producing, distributing, and consuming goods. Of securing resources necessary for immediate and long term survival. Whatever we lack is involved in these resources. Whatever we feel like we lack, we may seek to get it from some kind of exchange. Much of what comes out when people voice their candidate preferences: or like an occupy wall st, government shut down, something about the current economic system and what it is supposed to do. We don"t think that we should fund obama care. Marcel mauss is trying to get to that question, there are many ways to organize an economy. Our advanced way is not the only way. We could have more alternatives to choose from. Economy as embedded in the total culture. Economic systems and theories other than capitalist market economies.