Anthropology 291-01
Economic Anthropology
Spring 2001
Identification Terms for the Mid-Term

oikos
economizing
Thomas Hobbes
Jean Jacques Rousseau
noble savage
Adam Smith
enlightened self-interest
homo economicus
Trobriand Islands
kula
Bronislaw Malinowski
gimwali
substantivists
formalists
Karl Polanyi
Marshall Sahlins
"original affluent society"
Marx's notion of history
infrastructure
superstructure
Lewis Henry Morgan
"arts of subsistence"
savagery
barbarism
civilization
Frederick Engels
"world historical defeat of the female sex"
Chayanov/Chayanov's rule
peasant mode of production
domestic mode of production
Mitzi Goheen on the Nso
moral economy
Sedaka
Green Revolution
resistance
weapons of the weak
public transcript
private/hidden transcript
hegemony
Samuel Popkin
rational peasant
Franz Boas
potlatch
coppers
Sacrifice
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 leveller"
shell money
Henry Tokubak
banana leaf bundles
kitomu
keeping while giving
inalienable possessions
fine mats
rationalization
Protestant Ethic
Calvinism
ethos
calling
worldly asceticism
Wutong

 
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