Chapter 6
Remix Authors
Vanessa Martínez, Holyoke Community College
Demetrios Brellas, Framingham State University
Original Author
Sarah Lyons, University of Kentucky
Learning Objectives
- Define economic anthropology and identify ways in which economic anthropology differs from the field of Economics
- Describe the characteristics of the three modes of production: domestic production, tributary production, and capitalist production.
- Compare reciprocity, redistribution, and market modes of exchange.
- Assess the significance of general purpose money for economic exchange.
- Evaluate the ways in which commodities become personally and socially meaningful.
- Use a political economy perspective to assess examples of global economic inequality and structural violence.
