Questions based on the chapter Economics
- In what ways Economic Anthropology is different from the field of Economics? How would you define Economic Anthropology?
- What are the characteristics of the three modes of production: domestic production, tributary production, and capitalist production? Explain and illustrate them.
- Compare reciprocity, redistribution, and market modes of exchange in different societies; let's say the US and any non-industrial society.
- Evaluate the ways in whichcommoditiesbecome personally and socially meaningful.
- What is political economy? Use a political economy perspective to assess examples of global economic inequality andstructural violence.
Discussion Questions (from your textbook)
1. Why are the economic activities of people like the fair trade coffee farmers described in this chapter challenging to characterize? What benefits do the coffee farmers hope to achieve by participating in a fair trade cooperative? Why would participating in the global economy actually make these farming families more independent?
2. This chapter includes several examples of the ways in which economic production, consumption, and exchange link our lives to those of people in other parts of the world. Thinking about your own daily economic activities, how is your lifestyle dependent on people in other places? In what ways might your consumption choices be connected to global economic inequality?
3. General purpose money is used for most transactions in our society. How is the act of purchasing an object with money different from trading or gift-giving in terms of the social and personal connections involved? Would an alternative like the Ithaca HOURS system be beneficial to your community?
4. The Barbie doll is a product that represents rigid cultural ideas about race, but Elizabeth Chin discovered in her research that girls who play with these dolls transform the dolls’ appearance and racial identity. What are some other examples of products that people purchase and modify as a form of personal expression or social commentary?
My questions based on the chapter Economics
- What are the characteristics of the three modes of production: domestic production, tributary production, and capitalist production? Explain and illustrate them.
- Compare reciprocity, redistribution, and market modes of exchange.
- Evaluate the ways in which commodities become personally and socially meaningful.
- What is political economy? Use a political economy perspective to assess examples of global economic inequality and structural violence AND think about Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom when you answer this and previous questions for your essay.
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