ANT 185 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Trobriand Islands, Exogamy, Commodity Fetishism
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Everyone is aunt and uncle and cousins are cousin. Cousins called brother if male, sister if female. All 8 cousins have a different name. Aunt 1,2,3 uncle 1,2,3 cousin 1,2,3: read it from left to right numbers go left to right. Cross cousins on mom side=mo bro (male) mo (female) Unlined decent can be patronal or matrilineal. Cross cousins on dad side fa (male) fa sis (female) Common and involved in all aspects of society. At the heart of every culture nobless oblige. Having so much money and doing something with it because its expected. Accepting a gift extremely dangerousinvolves honor and prestige. A situation where people see the exchange of objects as constituting social relationships. Since the producers do not come into contact with each other until they exchange their product they have no social relationship except via the exchange of objects. Objects come to stand for the social relationships. Culture satisfies both individual and societal needs-emic-fieldwork on trobriand.
