ANT 252 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cultural Anthropology, Economic System, Impression Management
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The relative worth of an object or service. The structured patterns and relationships through which people exchange goods and services . The subfield of cultural anthropology concerned with how people make, share, and buy things and services. Study the decisions people make about earning a living. Economics and economic anthropologists have different goals. Economists try to understand and predict economic patterns, with the goal of helping people hold onto and increase their wealth. Anthropologists don"t assume transactions are the same everywhere, as they recognize that cultural particularities shape the character of any transaction. Focus on, for example, the relationship between economics and other aspects of the culture . Ex) like the symbolic properties of money. Studied investment banks and the international banking industry in. Wall street using participant observation and open-ended interviews just as an anthropologist working in a foreign village would. She reports that bankers and traders have a conception of wall street as an entity that seamlessly.
