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1002:3.1 [2016/07/21 22:31] – [Two points about spheres] Ryan Schram (admin) | 1002:3.1 [2017/07/16 23:13] – Ryan Schram (admin) | ||
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Some things, like land, cannot be exchanged for anything, but are inherited. | Some things, like land, cannot be exchanged for anything, but are inherited. | ||
- | ## Two points about spheres ## | + | ## Relationships can be organized into spheres, too ## |
- | 1. In spite of predictions to the contrary, money does not collapse all spheres into one market. Often money exchanges are placed in their own sphere. | + | We can take the idea of spheres of exchange and apply it to the different ways people exchange: |
- | 2. Western and “modern” societies think of themselves as being dominated by money, but if you think about it, these societies have spheres of exchange | + | |
- | ## A trading network in Papua New Guinea ## | + | * Kula valuables (bagi, mwali) are a sphere of exchange. These objects can only be exchanged for each other, and not for anything else. |
+ | * Moreover, one only does kula with certain kula partners, and one must keep one's kula exchanges separate from other kinds of exchanges with other people, like barter. | ||
- | [Map of PNG] | + | ## The ikpanture relationship is sphere |
- | ## Making pots in Salamaua ## | + | Piot describes the relationship among // |
- | We the people of Salamaua would like to put down the prices | + | * The way you treat your // |
+ | * // | ||
+ | * One relies on // | ||
+ | * Ikpanture relationships are not //quid pro quo//. | ||
- | Now you all see the prices for all these things and then you all will get it right. So, prices for them are like this: If you see a pot for 4/-, then you [pay with?] two big pandanus of 4/-. If a pot for 2/-, then you pay with a pandanus of 2/-. The reason is you all always just bring pandanus and get pots. So, you all don’t know the price of these things. And so, we put them for the pots so that you all can see them. | + | ## Two points about spheres ## |
- | If a pot is 5/-, or L1, then you must pay directly with money. It is not good that you should give pandanus for 5/- and L1 and get a pot. You know that the work of a pot is not like the work of pandanus - Pots are harder work than pandanus, so you must pay directly for big pots with real money. | + | 1. In spite of predictions to the contrary, money does not collapse all spheres into one market. Often money exchanges are placed in their own sphere. |
- | + | 2. Western | |
- | The work of pots is like this:- The very first thing, they must [dig?] the ground and they get really deep. After that, they bring it to the village | + | |
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- | We say this because you all have put down many things | + | |
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- | (“Lae Garamut” vol. II, no. 23) | + | |