ANT207H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Moneylender, Barter, Extortion
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Short questions will not be cumulative (from midterm 1 onwards) Material from the first part of the course may still be relevant to essay questions. Ownership (land, tools, capital); own/have access to the means of production. Who does what (work, paid and unpaid) Surplus (invest, save, distribute, consume it conspicuously) Making a living: hunting/gathering, produce food to eat/sell (agriculture, herding), produce non-food crops (rubber, timber), manufacture goods, services, wage work, live from capital/profit/inheritance, combination of sources - can ways of living can shift. Exchange/distribution: how do the things people produce circulate. What are the 2 elements involved/being exchanged. Typically think of exchange as money (main vehicle of exchange) Barter = direct exchange; have to negotiate; might be dependent on the person. Money = regarded as dangerous; makes all things anonymous, commensurable (made identical a series - i. e. shoes and bag = same thing because they"re both ), Tuesday, november 14, 2017 standardizes value; bearer doesn"t matter, money = goods.
