Question 1 What is the kula trade Question

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 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 • How does Marx’s critique of capitalism compare to that of Mauss?

Question 22 • Which critique of capitalism do you find more compelling, and why?

Question 23 • Why should we care about banana leaf bundles in the Trobriand Islands?

Question 24 • Why does Ongka want to organize a big moka?

Question 25 • Name three things that will be given away in Ongka’s moka.

Question 26 • Why is a moka hard to organize?

Question 27 • What has this discussion exercise suggested about gift exchange?