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| What is the annual percentage of the world’s wealthiest people’s total private consumption? |
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| What is the material symbol that defines what is most important for people in Europe and the United states? |
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| What is ‘commodity money’ and how does it differ from ‘exchange money’? |
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| Commodity money has some intrinsic value, and exchange money has value because the government says it does. |
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| What is needed for an economy to grow? |
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| 3% Growth and more things that people pay for. |
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| What percentage of money circulating in the US actually exists as bills and coins? |
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| Why, according to Richard Robbins, is perpetual economic growth necessary in a modern market economy? |
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| According to Richard Robbins, social capital resides in what? |
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| How are objects and activities transformed into commodities in a modern market economy? |
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| Transferring social capital (like daycare, health care, food preparation) where they did not count in GDP figures, to the market where they do count. |
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| What is the key process that has resulted in the economic growth in core countries over the past fifty years? |
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| The transfer of social capital-rich activities into market activities. |
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| Who was Karl Polanyi, and what, according to him, has been one of the major historical issues since the nineteenth century? |
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| Regulating market with laws, regulating pollution, working conditions and land use. |
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| What does the term neoliberal mean? How do Neoliberals view the role of government? |
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| Government action should be limited to guaranteeing property rights and public security. The term Neoliberalism is generally associated with economic liberalizations, free trade and open markets, the privatization of government-owned corporation, deregulation, and enhancing the role of the private sector in modern society. |
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| Who was John Maynard Keynes, and how did he advise governments to function in terms of markets and economic growth? |
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| Regulate the economy through its spending, tax policies, interest rates. |
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| What is/was the goal of the WTO? |
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| Ensure the free flow of goods and services across national boundaries. |
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| What was the commodity used by the Dutch as they developed the practice of investing and making money via purchasing shares and/or stocks? |
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| What is required in order to make sure that markets are successful and continue to increase? |
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| What do contemporary market practices demand in terms of both social and natural capital? |
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| Forest, mountains, animals, fish into a capital. |
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| What is the anthropological perspective and definition of a ‘totem’? |
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| Representation of a group and related to a flag. |
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| According to your text book, what is a metaphor, how is it a cultural product, and what do metaphors do? |
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| Figure of speech in which linguistic expressions are taken from one area of experience and applied to another. |
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| What do symbolic actions that include rituals, myths, arts, literature, and music do in terms of our lives as cultural beings? |
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| Organizing and making concrete particular view of the world. |
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| What is the theory that posits that language and culture influence each other? |
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| What is a ‘key scenario’? How does a ‘key scenario’ function? |
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| Dominate stories or myths that portray the values and beliefs of a specific society. |
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| What tragedy followed the adoption of the Ghost Dance by the Lakota Sioux? |
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| Upon a search of the Sioux shelters by the military, someone fired a shot and the army open fired killing men, women, and children. |
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| Who was Mary Douglas, and what does her work have to say about the idea of the group? |
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| Is the extent to which an individual is incorporated into bounded limits. Group constraints or pressures influence whether persons are free to move from group to group or they are constrained by group boundaries. |
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| Who or what was “Wovoka?” Why was Wovoka important to a revitalization movement among Indigenous peoples in the Plains? |
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| God told him to go back to his people and tell them to live in peace with the whites |
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| What were Native Indigenous peoples seeking through the practice of the Ghost Dance? |
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| Seeking a revival of way of life disrupted by Euro-American expansion. |
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| What is a ‘key metaphor’ and how do they function in terms of language, culture, and perception? |
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| Dominate the meanings that people in a specific culture attribute to their experience. |
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| According to Richard Robbins and other anthropologists cited in your text, American’s tend to borrow heavily from what metaphoric domains? |
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| According to Mary Douglas, how do low grid societies function in terms of status among social groups? |
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| How are ‘frames’ mental structures and what do they do in terms of cultural perceptions and individual and group meanings? |
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| Are mental structure that shape the way we see the world. |
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| What is the meaning of ‘interpretive drift’? |
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| When do revitalization movements tend to occur? |
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| What is a general explanation for why humans have such different ways of interpreting experience? |
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| Same perceptual abilities. |
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