Anthropology 268
Economic Anthropology
Spring 2018

Identification Terms for the Midterm

 

Instructions: On the midterm exam, you will be asked to define FIVE of eight terms, all of them chosen from the list below. For each term, identify where it comes from (the reading, author, and/or lecture topic), explain what it means, and discuss its significance. Each term will be worth five points, for a total of 25 points.

oikos
Mitchell on "the economy"
cadastral map
structural violence
financialization
Thomas Hobbes
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Adam Smith
enlightened self-interest
homo economicus
Trobriand Islands
kula
Bronislaw Malinowski
substantivists
formalists
"original affluent society"
Marx's notion of history
base
superstructure
Lewis Henry Morgan
"arts of subsistence"
Frederick Engels
"world historical defeat of the female sex"
Chayanov's rule
moral economy
rational peasant
Darjeeling
Geographical Indication
Fair Trade
tripartite moral economy
plantation versus garden
industri versus bisnis
Franz Boas
potlatch
3 rules of the gift
hau
total social fact
use value
exchange value
alienation of labor
labor theory of value
commodity fetishism
money as "radical leveler"
moka
banana leaf bundles
rationalization
Protestant Ethic
Calvinism
ethos
calling

 

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