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... exchanged. Focusing on the things that are exchanged, rather than simply on the forms or functions of exchange, makes it possible to argue that what creates the link between exchange and value is politics, construed broadly. This argument, which is elaborated in the text of this essay, justifies the ...
... exchanged. Focusing on the things that are exchanged, rather than simply on the forms or functions of exchange, makes it possible to argue that what creates the link between exchange and value is politics, construed broadly. This argument, which is elaborated in the text of this essay, justifies the ...
FULL-TEXT - Manchester eScholar
... A few things can be said about the film and its importance in both the wider public and the university. Ongka’s Big Moka is the subtitle of a film, “The Kawelka”. Not a new film – it was produced in 1977 by Granada Studios in the famous, Disappearing World series that brought the lives of people in ...
... A few things can be said about the film and its importance in both the wider public and the university. Ongka’s Big Moka is the subtitle of a film, “The Kawelka”. Not a new film – it was produced in 1977 by Granada Studios in the famous, Disappearing World series that brought the lives of people in ...
ch_19_p
... affect other economies; aggregate demand, output and prices become more volatile across countries as policies diverge. ...
... affect other economies; aggregate demand, output and prices become more volatile across countries as policies diverge. ...
flexible capitalism
... that social life in contemporary work regimes appears forever more ‘disembedded’ (Polanyi 2001), or to paraphrase Marx (1990), that it appears to reach forever more ‘alienating commodity forms’. What this familiarity suggests, however, is that the current concern may be partly shaped by what Maurer ...
... that social life in contemporary work regimes appears forever more ‘disembedded’ (Polanyi 2001), or to paraphrase Marx (1990), that it appears to reach forever more ‘alienating commodity forms’. What this familiarity suggests, however, is that the current concern may be partly shaped by what Maurer ...
1 Introduction
... and 2). Over the past century they have worked as wage labourers. In addition, they have been formed into reserve-based wards of government, with the usual problems of unemployment, welfare ennui, structural nepotism, substance abuse, and family discord; but, like the Tswana people studied by the Co ...
... and 2). Over the past century they have worked as wage labourers. In addition, they have been formed into reserve-based wards of government, with the usual problems of unemployment, welfare ennui, structural nepotism, substance abuse, and family discord; but, like the Tswana people studied by the Co ...
Barter in practice: a case study of liwac transaction in
... The items for which these goods exchanged are mostly second-hand shoes and clothes. Shoes are generally made of leather since these are believed to be easily renewable and marketable. Exchanging underwear is not acceptable not only because these items of clothing are cheap to buy, but because most p ...
... The items for which these goods exchanged are mostly second-hand shoes and clothes. Shoes are generally made of leather since these are believed to be easily renewable and marketable. Exchanging underwear is not acceptable not only because these items of clothing are cheap to buy, but because most p ...
The Red Tape Challenge - Charities Aid Foundation
... claim Gift Aid-like payments on donations of £20 or less without having to collect a donor declaration, up to a maximum donation level of £5,000 every year. This effectively constitutes a ‘grant’ of up to £1,250 per year for each eligible organisation . 2.2.1 CAF supports the stated policy objective ...
... claim Gift Aid-like payments on donations of £20 or less without having to collect a donor declaration, up to a maximum donation level of £5,000 every year. This effectively constitutes a ‘grant’ of up to £1,250 per year for each eligible organisation . 2.2.1 CAF supports the stated policy objective ...
Economies of Scarcity and Acquisition, Economies of Gift and
... based upon opposite assumptions of gift and thanksgiving. Many, perhaps the great majority of human cultures throughout history, have experienced nature not as “niggardly” but as abundant and overflowing, and such a feeling for the world moderates one’s desires: if one experiences nature as bountif ...
... based upon opposite assumptions of gift and thanksgiving. Many, perhaps the great majority of human cultures throughout history, have experienced nature not as “niggardly” but as abundant and overflowing, and such a feeling for the world moderates one’s desires: if one experiences nature as bountif ...
Economies of Scarcity and Acquisition, Economies of Gift and
... chronic, prolonged sort that so many experience in our world today. Hunger was a great rarity rather than the norm. Furthermore, such people enjoyed significant amounts of leisure time, more than do most in modern industrial societies. Indeed, Sahlins terms them “the original affluent society.”2 Rob ...
... chronic, prolonged sort that so many experience in our world today. Hunger was a great rarity rather than the norm. Furthermore, such people enjoyed significant amounts of leisure time, more than do most in modern industrial societies. Indeed, Sahlins terms them “the original affluent society.”2 Rob ...
Five Interwoven Economies: * Subsistence, * Gift, * Exchange
... The economies are interwoven. Interactions are often not just in one economy. For example, a big retailer with a shoplifting problem might: * make a plan in conjunction with local officials (planned economy) * to donate a percent of profits to a worthy cause like a non-profit homeless shelter (gift ...
... The economies are interwoven. Interactions are often not just in one economy. For example, a big retailer with a shoplifting problem might: * make a plan in conjunction with local officials (planned economy) * to donate a percent of profits to a worthy cause like a non-profit homeless shelter (gift ...
ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
... Economic systems may be defined in terms of the substantive institutional arrangements for provisioning members of a society ...
... Economic systems may be defined in terms of the substantive institutional arrangements for provisioning members of a society ...
Generalized reciprocity
... - “cultural materialism” - biological vs. social evolution - principles of reciprocity What can we learn from the “evolution of human nature?” - There is nothing inherited about the political formalism and social inequality that characterize large state societies ...
... - “cultural materialism” - biological vs. social evolution - principles of reciprocity What can we learn from the “evolution of human nature?” - There is nothing inherited about the political formalism and social inequality that characterize large state societies ...
exchange
... Since more raffia is required to marry than any one man can produce, it takes community approval to marry. In modern economy, men can gain access to ...
... Since more raffia is required to marry than any one man can produce, it takes community approval to marry. In modern economy, men can gain access to ...
Chapter 8, Economics
... allocation of resources Rules adopted by all societies that govern the regulation and control of such resources as land, water, and their by-products. ...
... allocation of resources Rules adopted by all societies that govern the regulation and control of such resources as land, water, and their by-products. ...