Exchange

Defining exchange
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Connections to material culture
Annette Weiner

The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea

(watched film companion to the book in class)

-followed storyline and tracked my own interests in music and play at the same time

How value is produced by exchange of material goods in context, social relationships

Social + economic life + kinship ... material culture

Economic anthropology as foil

Gift economies

Marcel Mauss; economic processes are more complicated than we give them credit for

-Total social facts

Prestation and the public nature of gifting

-grounded in systems that serve social functions, part of greater social orders

-reciprocity is important and has its own rules

-social consequences

How has my understanding of exchange changed since the beginning of class?
Alternative currencies (dogecoin, mazacoin, etc.)

"human economy"

Non-human relationships (objects)

Giving, buying, selling bleed together

Folktropes
Yam theory

White plastic chair