ANTH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Working Class In The United States, Economic Anthropology, Barter

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH101
• Professor: Vikram Thakur

Document Summary

The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. Their economic choices simply express their wants. People"s choices merely a simple equation of wants and resources to get it. Economic choices does not express just their wants. I want a - but am also happy with - Gender, class, history and locations often dictate people"s choices (or lack of it): I want - but can afford a cheaper - Can"t buy a - but can afford a - Reciprocity, both positive and negative, ex christmas gifts (and scams) Kicked out of his home country prussia. Most influential thinker of the last two centuries. Shaped the method of historical and materialist enquiry of the past. Offered one of the earliest and systematic critique of the modern capitalist system. His ideas served in shaping the workers movement across the world and continue to do so in the present.