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Anthro 1010 Vocab
Chapter 7
Term | Definition |
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Corvee | A system of required labor |
Optimal Foraging Theory | The theory that individuals seek to maximize the returns on their labor in deciding which animals and plants they will go after |
Reciprocity | Giving and taking (not politically arranged) without the use of money |
Generalized Reciprocity | Gift giving without any immediate or planned return |
Balanced reciprocity | Giving with the expectation of a straightforward immediate or limited-time trade |
Potlatch | A feast among Pacific Northwest Native Americans at which great quantities of food and goods are given to the guests in order to gain prestige for the hosts |
Redistribution | The accumulation of goods by a particular person or in a particular particular place and their subsequent distribution |
Market (Commercial) Exchange | Transactions in which the "prices" are subject to supply and demand, whether or not the transactions occur in a marketplace |
General-purpose money | A universally accepted medium of exchange |
Special-purpose money | Objects of value for which only some goods and services can be exchanged |
Peasants | Rural people who produce food for their own subsistence but who must also contribute or sell their surpluses to others |