ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Trobriand Islands, Capital Good, Social Capital
17 May 2017
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Capital goods: items produced not for consumption but for the production of other goods: ex: factories that produce machines, that produce other goods o ex: raw rubber. Social capital: bonds of reliable friendship, support, and obligations acquired within a community: ex: friendships, alliances, gift giving (bond and obligation) Generalized don"t keep track (i give you something, you give me something. Balanced more formal (specific values) opposite of generalized (what i gave you, i want back the same) Negative one of the people makes a profit. Men travel in circular patterns, island to island, stop along the way. Give their hosts a shell necklace or armband (depending which direction their traveling clockwise or counter clockwise) Kula builds bonds, alliances, and friendship, although the shells have no value. Once they have established friendships, then they can ease into real trade (rubber, coffee, etc) Once you are apart of a kula, always a kula. Food and other goods collected by an organizer.
