question 1 what is the kula trade?. question 2 in what direction do the armshells move?
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Question 1
• What is the kula trade?
Question 2
• In what direction do the armshells move?
Question 3
• In what direction do the necklaces move?
Question 4
• What two qualities does the kula have which contradicted economists’ theories about non-capitalist trade?
Question 5
• According to Mauss, what are the three obligations of the gift?
Question 6
• What is the hau?
Question 7
• What language is hau from?
Question 8
• What is the potlatch?
Question 9
• Explain two anthropological interpretations of the potlatch.
Question 10
• Why did authorities in British Columbia ban the potlatch?
Question 11
• What is Mauss’s critique of capitalism? Why is at odds with morality?
Question 12
• Why does Mauss advocate for a social security plan? Would his plan work?
Question 13
• What is a total social fact?
Question 14
• Is the analysis of a total social fact an effective anthropological method? Explain why or why not.
Question 15
• According to Marx, what is use value?
Question 16
• According to Marx, what is exchange value?
Question 17
• How do use value and exchange value help us to understand the social and cultural changes that accompany capitalism?
Question 18
• What is Marx’s labor theory of value?
Question 19
• Why is labor alienated under capitalism, according to Marx?
Question 20
• Why is money a radical leveler?
Question 21
• What might Marx say about feminist economists’ calculations of the dollar value of women’s household labor?
Question 22
• How does Marx’s critique of capitalism compare to that of Mauss?
Question 23
• Which critique of capitalism do you find more compelling, and why?
Question 24
• Why should we care about banana leaf bundles in the Trobriand Islands?
Question 25
• Why do people in the movie Pig Tusks and Paper Money see paper money as “like the wind”?
Question 26
• Why does Henry Tokubak want to establish a traditional money bank?
Question 27
• What has this discussion exercise suggested about gift exchange?