ANTH 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Trobriand Islands, Kula Ring, Kinship
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Distribution and exchange review: market principle, redistribution. Exchanges in the trobriand islands: kula ring, men > yams, women > bundles, skirts, etc, potlatching. Asante market women: women"s roles in markets and power within marriage or the household, matrilineal, polygamy > status of men, positions of power in society. Two ways to become a queen mother: election- easier time ruling, from the king, ghana. Sociopolitical organization: individuals or groups that manage or seek to in uence public policy. !1: processes, people, and institutions involved in the regulation or management of interrelations among groups and their representatives. De nition that allows comparisons of all forms of social and political organization. Economic forms generally associated with forms of political organizations. San in southern africa, inuit in the arctic. Monday, march 20, 2017: yanomami in venezuela, brazil, big man . Trobriand islands, melanesia: tribes, horticulture, shing. Four totemic clans, with subclans: matrilineal descent groups, village heads and/or chiefs (or big men)
