ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pastoralism
31 Jan 2017
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Involves an output something to give up. Involves an intake something to give in return. Modes of exchange: reciprocity, redistribution, market exchanges. Transactions of goods and services of roughly equal value. Involves little sense of material gain for either side. Within families, close friends people who are going to see each other again. Exchange of goods where there is an exact return. Less personal but doesn"t have to be. Give up more than you ever get back. One family, person collects a bunch of stuff (goods) Gives them away under locally specific rules. Events in life birth, naming of a child, coming of age, chief elected, totem pole erected, funerals, memorials, marriages, *giveaway distribution of wealth obligates them to remember the event (because they do not write it down) You agree that the money you give up = the goods/services you get in exchange. You agree that money you spend and give up does not equal the goods/services you receive.
