ANTH 195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Making Money, Dopesick, Moral Economy
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Exchange name-name you"re given for the item you gave as a git (gebusi: reinforcing the social bond created from the exchange. The edgewater homeless (i"ll scratch your back if you scratch mine) Reciprocal git-giving distributes presige and scarce goods and services among people living in nonmarket economies. Rd: knowledge that you can"t survive alone and that creates this moral economy and community. *presige-social status, esteem or respect or approval for culturally-valued acts or qualiies. Unethical to leave someone dopesick unless they have wronged you in the past. Places to shoot up (more than simply just about the drugs) Labor-marx point of view: all labor is social labor; it is a collecive act; when we perform labor it is social reproducing. Division of labor-customary assignment of diferent kinds of work to diferent kinds of people. Modes of producion-speciic, historically occurring set of social relaions through which labor is deployed to wrest energy from nature by means of tools, skills, etc.
