ANTH 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Michel Leiris, Marcel Mauss, Barter
11 Apr 2018
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Discuss from their p. o. v: do so by collecting quotes, using native terms (kula) 1967 daughter publishes one of his diaries originally written in polish that had been written in the trobriands. Loosely written because to himself: displays hate, anxiety, exhaustion, separation between public face of research and the private self. Part of movement in surrealism (liberation of desire from the industrial. Within the period of france"s two wars. Argues against those who argue what economy would look like in a state of nature, that predicated on a state of barter: no evidence of this in archaic societies. Barter doesn"t exist on an individual basis, it"s collective exchange between groups. The market is but one aspect of exchange. Wealth is but a small portion of what is exchanged: this is the word of social prestation. Not quite communist as it takes away from the individuality. Socialist in that those of wealth should equilibrate .
