ANTHR110 Lecture : Giving and Recieving.pdf
8 Dec 2013
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In this system, everyone is trying to get the best deal possible: you can barter with strangers as well as with people you know, system similar to barter: silent trade . If you think about most of our close primate relative, they don"t exchange beyond the relationship of mother and child. Besides that, it"s every individual for itself: that doesn"t mean that there aren"t advantages to living in a troupe, but they all feed themselves independently, but in all human societies, exchange is crucial. Probably part of the evolutionary transition to being fully human: examples of exchange: the kuna in panama, people would invite prof howe in from the street to have something to eat or drink. 2000 fish for the chief as a gift: the next time a chief came around, they organized a collection of thatch leaves, later that year some people who lived on the mainland arrived.
