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Cult. ANTH

Chapter 7

TermDefinition
consumption the use of subsistence resource, including outcomes of production
economic system cultural methods of allocating natural resources, the means of exploiting the resources through technology, the organization of work, and the production, distribution, consumption, and exchange of goods and services
production system of extracting resources and utilizing labor and technology to obtain foods, goods, and services
specialized of labor system of allocating work in which different people perform different tasks
generalized reciprocity the exchange of goods and services without keeping track of their exact value, but often with the expectation that their value will balance out over time
balanced reciprocity exchange of goods and services of a specifies value at a specified time and place
potlatch ceremonial feast, characteristic of indigenous Pacific Northwest coast societies, during which hosts distributed to guests a great deal of food and goods that had been accumulated over many months or years
negative reciprocity exchange of goods and services in which each party seeks to benefit at the expense of the other, thus making a profit
redistributive networks economic system in which an organizer amasses food and other goods and then distributes to community members or guests at large public gatherings
capitalism an economic mode of production in which the goal is to amass wealth in the form of money to gain control over the means of production and then use this control to accumulate even greater wealth
surplus value the amount of value that workers produce in capitalist production that is greater than the wage paid to them
colonialism policies in which countries establish colonies in distant place to exploit their resources and labor, and possibly to establish settlements to their own citizens abroad
industrial agriculture application of industrial technology and chemicals to farming for increased productivity
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