ANTH 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Productive Forces, Complex Number, Black Market
26 Oct 2018
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Production and allocation of material goods and services. Do not separate from other aspects of society: highly integrated. Closely associated with political systems which are concerned with the allocation of power and authority. A means of producing, distributing, and consuming goods . Production: raw materials turned into human (social/cultural) goods. Distribution: moving goods/services from producers to users. People respond to other motivations than profit: wealth, prestige, pleasure, comfort, or social harmony: more complex than basic theory. Anthropologists study how goods are produced, distributed and consumed in the context of the total culture of particular societies. Labor tools and specialization: technology can change the way land is used. Intensive agriculture/industrialism: goods and services are produced through mass employment, formal economy, currency, wage based, reported in some way, taxes, social security. Informal economy: getting paid under the table, babysitting, not officially registered, sometimes illegal, underground economy. Illegal informal sector: drug and human trafficking, arms dealing, prostitution.
