3 - Economic Systems Flashcards
Economic Systems
Livelihood, consumption, exchange
Livelihood
making goods or money
consumption
using up goods or money
exchange
transfer of goods or money between people or institutions
mode of livelihood
the dominant way of making a living in the culture
mode of consumption
dominant pattern in culture of using up goods and services
mode of exchange
the dominant pattern in culture of transferring goods, services, and other items between and among people and groups
Foraging
mode of livelihood based on resources available in nature through gathering, fisihing, or hunting. oldest way of making living
resource curse
people in rich countires desire the natural resources in their areas which leads to conversion of foraging lands to mines, plantations, or tourist desitnations, leading to the displacement of foragers from their homeland
Tools
rely of many kinds of tolls for gathering, transporting, processing wild foods
Estensive strategy
a mode of liveliehood requiring access to large areas of land and unrestricted population movement
Two major varieties of foraging
temperate climate and circumpolar
division of labour
occupational spcialistation based on gender and age.
private property
sense of owning something that can be sold to someone else; does not exist in foraging societies