ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cargo System

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 103
• Professor: A Lee

Document Summary

The norms governing production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services within a society. The study of the ways in which the choices people make combine to determine how their society uses its scarce resources to produce and distribute goods and services. Choosing a course of action to maximize perceived benefit. Material goods, natural resources, or information used to create other goods or information. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owner"s financial wealth. An institution composed of kin and/or non-kin that is organized primarily for financial gain. A mutual give-and-take among people of equal status. Giving and receiving goods with no immediate or specific return expected. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing.