ANT E105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Trobriand Islands, Complementary Currency, Banana Leaf
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But brothers and sisters, fathers not ever dicuss sex. Women wear longer skirts; both take of red shell necklaces. Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing. The insular san francisco community of bernal heights has updated what is believed to be the country"s first complementary currency in the form of a debit card. Men want to have prestige and power. But they cannot grow yams/wealth for themselves. They give away their yams/wealth to sister. Yams = politics, prestige and social control. Chiefly lineages came at different times = competition. Men from wives" side of the family grows yams~ reason why they have so many wives. Polygamy= general term, marriage rule allows more than one spouse at the same time. Fraternal polyandry (husbands leaves to fight in wars. Have to have husbands back home so the group is still reproducing) Serial polygamy= u. s. (marry, divorce, marry divorce= married at different times) What are the disadvantages? (rights to who)
