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Balanced Reciprocity
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The direct or immediate exchange of goods with little or no long term social consequences
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Barter
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The direct negotiated exchange of goods and services, without the use of money
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Cargo System
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A religious economic institution of Chiapas Maya, where men spend great amounts of money and time for the honor and prestige of holding ceremonial offices
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Commensuality
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Group meals, or feasting, an element in many rituals
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Consumption
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The third interest of traditional economics, the use of goods and services
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Distribution
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One of the basic aspects of economic behavior, the movement of goods and services through some sort of exchange or reciprocity
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Exchange
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The movement of goods and services between people
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Foodways
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All the knowledge and behavior that surrounds the goods and of a culture
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Forms of Integration
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The various forms of exchange in a society viewed in a holistic sense
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Generalized Reciprocity
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Exchange between relatives or others with close social ties, usually involving sometime lag between on transaction and its reiprocal
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Gift
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The sort of exchange of goods between people which usually involves a delay between the one gift and the return gift. The people are embedded in a web of social relationships, and the gifts are often said to be "free", but as Marcel Mauss showed, there are strong obligations to repay gifts
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Kula Exchange
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The great interisland routes along which people of the islands off the eastern tip fo New Guinea, including the Trobriand Islanders, circulated valuable shell and coral ornaments
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Leveling Effect
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Cultural institutions that function to reduce the distraction between rich and poor people through fear or economic redistribution
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Market Exchange
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Places where exchange takes place using money rather than through barter
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Medical Materialism
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The explanation of foodways, including food prohibitions, of a culture in terms of benefits or dangers of those food items
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