describe the sentinelese tribe
- Sentinelese tribe north sentinel island
- Indochina area, India is responsible for policies regarding it
- Have been a few attempts of contact, but ended in death
- Dr. Pandit, anthropologist who attempted to make contact, gave them coconuts. Nothing was offered back.
when did the discipline of economics come into being? what replaced the feudal system?
- The discipline of economics came into being alongside the industrial revolution in the late 1700s
- Capitalism replaced the feudal economic system where wealth was distributed according to social status or rank
what does capitalism center around?
• Capitalism centers around a free market system; it is based on a mechanism whereby price is dependent upon supply and demand
contrast of capitalist and non capitalist exchanges
• Capitalist commodity exchanges, impersonal exchanges of goods for cash where exchange partners need not have any further contact with;
Non-capitalist gift exchanges, which are deeply embedded in social relations and always require a return gift
3 main modes of exchange (on test)
- Reciprocity
- Redistribution
- Market exchange
- Different modes of exchange can coexist in a given society
- One mode of exchange serves to structure the main economy
define reciprocity
• Reciprocity is the exchange of goods and services of equal value
what is generalized reciprocity?
• Generalized reciprocity: when an exchange is carried out without specifying the time or value of the return
what is balanced reciprocity?
• Balanced reciprocity: when a return of equal value at a specific time is expected
what is negative reciprocity?
• Negative reciprocity: when at least one party attempts to get something for nothing, without penalty
what does redistribution require?
requires some form of centralized social organization in order to:
• Receive economic contributions from all members of the group
• Redistribute the contributions so as to provide for every group member
• Ex: taxes
what 3 things does market exchange involve? describe each
- Trade: the exchange of goods
- Money: a medium of exchange that assigns values to goods
- Market: the supply-demand price mechanism for regulating exchange
how is the anthropology of food and nutrition studied?
- Historically, biological anthropologists have completed cross-cultural comparisons of nutrition and growth
- Cultural anthropologists have in the past documented local food habits
- The anthropology of food and nutrition now addresses how the global capitalist food market works:
- Looks at the impact of political forces on the production, distribution, and consumption of food around the world
