Lecture 5

Question 1

Although most nations are not much older than 200 years, they will often claim to have been around since …

Answer 1

time immemorial

Question 2

Commodity Chain Assignment involves … (“cooperative looking”)

Answer 2

participant observation

Question 3

Ethnographic 1) SKELETON =

Answer 3

Basic anatomy & organization of group / site

Question 4

Ethnographic 2) SPIRIT =

Answer 4

local utterances, narratives, language

Question 5

Ethnographic 3) Flesh & Blood =

Answer 5

“imponderabilia of actual life” : small events, details, moments

Question 6

Ethnographic 1. 2. 3.

Answer 6

1. Skeleton (organization) 2. Spirit (adjectives and narratives) 3. Flesh & blood (details)

Question 7

WHAT IS KEY TO CREATING AN ECONOMY (BIG QUESTION)?

Answer 7

standardization / the creation of comparable values

Question 8

Who creates & regulates standards of comparable values?

Answer 8

The State.