ANTH-101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gender Equality, Gender Inequality, Morton Fried
14 Mar 2017
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Means of production: tools, skills, and knowledge by which nature is transformed. Redistribution: goods are collected by central authority and redistributed (ordered, involves groups and individuals that are socially unequal) Market: money, bartering, people are perceived to be equal and there is no relation outside of the exchange. Mobilizative: impersonal and between groups and individuals who are unequal (taxes are redistributed in form of public services: balanced (kula ring with white/red shell armbands) usually involved labour (asking someone to help you move in exchange for food/beer). Negative: the person who doesn"t catch you next time . Positive: we do something with no expectation of return: general: cad. How we consume goods reflects how we respond to our needs. External explanation (julian steward): how humans relate to the physical environment and other species (basis in ecology). Cultural explanation: human beings are able to construct their own niches, are not passive in response to the environment.
