Tag: Economic Anthropology

Identify your research environment and provide a specific example of name, culture, or agency.Explain why fieldwork is essential to the goals of anthropology.

Answer Focus Questions:
Answer the following questions regarding how you, as a Cultural Anthropology, would use anthropological fieldwork methods within your research environment:

Identify your research environment and provide a specific example of name, culture, or agency.

Explain why fieldwork is essential to the goals of anthropology.

Examine a fieldwork method(s) you can use to understand your research environment and to fully understand the culture/group. Make sure to apply it to the specific example you have chosen.

Identify if and how your research results could be used to make changes, improvements, or modifications within the cultural/agency you chose.

Explain the development of ideas pertaining to formation of social actions in society.

Are there things that you can’t put a price on?is it all about the monetary value of the gift, or does gift-giving have a social value beyond the price tag?

Discussion Post 9: Economic Anthropology

Use these sources for the response:
The Many Hands Shirt: Reuniting a Family and an Heirloom
https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/many-hands-shirt-chief-black-horn/

In this column from Sapiens, a museum curator gives us an example of a key concept from chapter 8: the value of an object isn’t just measured in money. As you read this article, think about the ways that people value things outside of money. Are there things that you can’t put a price on?

“Throw Me Something, Mister!”
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/throw-me-something-mister/
This article considers the idea of gift exchange – another key concept from chapter 8 – as seen during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Read this article and think about the value of gift-giving: is it all about the monetary value of the gift, or does gift-giving have a social value beyond the price tag?