ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Karl Polanyi, Ethnocentrism, Fictive Kinship
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Know how to use matrilineal, patrilineal, family kin, and other terms know how to use these terms in context. Matrilineal individuals belong to the group of their mother, only offspring of the women will belong to matrilineage. Lineage is a corporate group- share in lineage property. Clan: inclusive groups based on what is described as stipulated or assumed descent. Can be organized based on political expedience, defense, fictive kinship. Paul bohannon study of the tiv in nigeria. Can understand in modern economic concepts (formalist) How would apply these concepts to the tiv. Distinct spheres in which categories of goods circulate. Subsistence-exchange basic goods- things needed for survival. Supreme sphere is where women were exchanged. Acquire its own logic to understand it. You do not trade between spheres- do not trade prestige for subsistence. Must understand economic exchange within its own cultural context. Differ in degrees of liquidity- converted to cash. Not that different compared to modern economics.
