ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Pastoralism, Banana Leaf, Trobriand Islands
29 Aug 2020
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Ideas, technologies, activities that allow a culture to thrive and survive in their environment. Primary resources are: raw materials, technology, labor. Everything comes into central point, measured, and redistributed. Value and timing of goods exchange are specific. Marcel mauss (french sociologist/anthropologist: obligation to give, obligation to receive, obligation to reciprocate, gifts are power-laden, strategic, there are no free gifts. Discovered the woman"s banana leaf exchange system (not noted by malinowsky) Prestige economy: creation a surplus for the express purpose of gaining prestige through a public display of wealth that is given away as gifts. Review and finish reciprocity, exchange and economy. Generalized: value and repayment are not specified. Balanced: value and timing of goods exchanged are specific. Prestige economy: creation of a surplus for the express purpose of gaining prestige through a public display of wealth that is given away as gifts.
