Tag: potlach

• Recent scholarship on Weber’s ‘Time is Money’

  

  Introduction The economic survival of the fittest is a product of the modern Western spirit of Capitalism, developed to ensure its own survival, and in turn has reshaped concepts of time, the purpose of life, community and social values, and cultural systems (Weber, 1905). The values inherent under the modern Capitalist system of the West,…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  bangalore, capitalism, catadores, culture, economic survival of the fittest, elderhood, gender, global economy, gupta, kenya, mankekar, market, meiu, millar, money, polanyi, potlach, poverty, productivity, race, samburu, social, social value, status, success, surveillance, time, UK, wealth, weber, west, workspace

• The poison in the gift: The problem with debt

  

  The modern-day financial credit systems in North America and Chile closely resemble older forms of gift exchange, especially when considering the qualities inherent in all gift societies’ system of exchange. Mauss argues that all valuable objects in gift economies are due to its inherent ability to attach itself to persons, for example through identity or history (Graeber, 2001). However, Graeber affirms…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  anthropology, bloch, chile, credit, cultural anthropology, debt, domestic relations, economy, exchange, gift, graeber, greece, han, hau, hierarchy, mauss, meneley, money, mortality, parry, potlach, social, spirit, the gift, tournaments of value, yemen