ANTH 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: World Economy, Sugarcane, Triangular Trade

• School: UConn
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1000
• Professor: Elle Shoreman-Ouimet

Document Summary

Hundreds of thousands of exchanges every day as money changes hands and moves. Modern capitalist economy affects all of our lives and connects us all . How connected are we to the rest of the world by $ The majority of the world"s chocolate is today grown in the ivory coast. In 2010 when seated president refused to leave office, he began civil war, funding paramilitary with cacao tax $ What is an economy, and what is its purpose: economy( ) - a cultural adaptation to the environment that enables a group of humans to use the available land, resources, and labor to satisfy their needs and to thrive. In this section we will take an anthropological look at economies, rather than a strictly monetary view. Three key stages of all economies: production, distribution, consumption. When talking about production, anthropologists often focus on food production.