ANTHROP 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Marvin Harris, Consumerism, Potlatch

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Consumerism is the distinguishing feature of industrial/digital economy cultures. Amartya sen-proposed the theory of entitlements entitlement-a culturally defined right to life-sustaining resources direct entitlements-are the most secure indirect entitlements-depend on exchanging something in order to obtain consumer needs: labor, animal hides, money, or food stamps-riskier form of dependency. In israel children"s birthday parties have recently become expensive events and are a reflection of the hosts women"s deadly diet in papua new guinea. Lecture consumption has two meanings: is a person"s intake in terms of eating are other ways of using things and it is output in terms of spending or using resources to obtain those things. 5 people have tried the official fruit of ohio the pawpaw. 100% tried apple, pear, peach, grape, raisin, grapefruit, lemon, banana, coconut, pineapple, blackberry, pumpkin. No one has tried fewer than 25 fruits. This longitudinal comparison shows the similarities and differences between the different fruits that classes have tried based on the year.

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