Economic anthropology

How humans work to obtain the material necessities such as food, clothing, and shelter

Extracting raw materials Agriculture, aquaculture, timber, mieng, etc.

Subsistence agriculture

Farmers produce enough for themselves and their families and often do not enter the cash economy at all

Commercial agriculture

large scale farming and ranching operations

regional to global interconnections of a diverse group of food producers, distributors, and consumers

as income increases, the proportion of the budget spent on ‘starchy stapes’ decreases

Manufacturing, processing, construction, etc

Industrial revolution

Series of technological innovations in power energy, transportation, and manufacturing process improvements

Services Sales, government, education, finances, health care, etc

Domestic Production, Tributary Production, Capitalist Production

Foragers and small scale farmers Egalitarian Labor organized by kinship relations Collective ownership of means of production Lower rates of social domination Sharing

Societies with classes of rulers and subjects Farmers and herders who produce for themselves but also give portion to rulers as tribute Communities organized by kinship Tribute is used by ruling class rather than exchanged

Capitalist production

Private property owned by a capitalist class Workers sell their labor to others, are separated from the means of production Keep wages low in order to sell products for more than it costs to produce the products Generates a surplus

giving gifts create relationships

the accumulation of goods or labor by a particular person or institution for the purpose of dispersal at a later date

social institutions with prices or exchange equivalencies

the process of buying, eating, or suing a resource, food, commodity or service

a good that is produced for sale or exchange for other goods Objects have a "social life”

contextualizes economic relations within state structures, political processes, social structures, and cultural values

a social structure or institution harms people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs

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Anthropology Ch 6

Term	Definition
Economic anthropology	How humans work to obtain the material necessities such as food, clothing, and shelter
Economic sectors	Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
Primary sector	Extracting raw materials Agriculture, aquaculture, timber, mieng, etc.
Subsistence agriculture	Farmers produce enough for themselves and their families and often do not enter the cash economy at all
Commercial agriculture	large scale farming and ranching operations
Food supply chains	regional to global interconnections of a diverse group of food producers, distributors, and consumers
Bennett's Law	as income increases, the proportion of the budget spent on ‘starchy stapes’ decreases
Secondary sector	Manufacturing, processing, construction, etc
Industrial revolution	Series of technological innovations in power energy, transportation, and manufacturing process improvements
Tertiary sector	Services Sales, government, education, finances, health care, etc
Modes of production	Domestic Production, Tributary Production, Capitalist Production
Domestic production	Foragers and small scale farmers Egalitarian Labor organized by kinship relations Collective ownership of means of production Lower rates of social domination Sharing
Tributary production	Societies with classes of rulers and subjects Farmers and herders who produce for themselves but also give portion to rulers as tribute Communities organized by kinship Tribute is used by ruling class rather than exchanged
Capitalist production	Private property owned by a capitalist class Workers sell their labor to others, are separated from the means of production Keep wages low in order to sell products for more than it costs to produce the products Generates a surplus
Modes of exchange	Generalized Balanced Negative
Reciprocity	giving gifts create relationships
Redistribution	the accumulation of goods or labor by a particular person or institution for the purpose of dispersal at a later date
Markets	social institutions with prices or exchange equivalencies
Money	General purpose money
Consumption	the process of buying, eating, or suing a resource, food, commodity or service
Commodity	a good that is produced for sale or exchange for other goods Objects have a "social life”
Political economy	contextualizes economic relations within state structures, political processes, social structures, and cultural values
Structural violence	a social structure or institution harms people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs

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