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18 Cards in this Set
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Mode of production
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The dominant pattern of making a living in a culture.
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Extensive strategy
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A form of production involving temporary use of large areas of land and a high degree of spatial mobility.
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Modes of Production
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Reason for Production, Division of Labor, Property Relations, Resource Use, Sustainability
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Use rights
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A system of property relations in which a person or group has socially recognized priority in access to particular resources such as gathering, hunting, and fishing areas and water holes.
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Indigenous knowledge
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Local knowledge about the environment, including plants, animals, and resources.
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Industrialism/ Informatics
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A mode of production in which goods are produced through mass employment n business and commercial operations and through the creation and movement of information through electronic media.
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Potlatch
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A grant feast in which guests are invited to eat and to receive gifts from the hosts.
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Mode of consumption
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The dominant pattern, in a culture, of using things up or spending resources in order to satisfy demands.
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Mode of exchange
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The dominant pattern, in a culture, of transferring goods, services, and other items between and among people and groups.
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Minimalism
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A mode of consuption that emphasizes simplicity, is characterized by few and finite (limited) consumer demands, and involves an adequate and sustainable means to achieve them.
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Consumerism
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A mode of consumption in which people's demands are many and infinite and the means of satisfying them are insufficient and become depleted in the effort to satisfy these demands.
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Balanced exchange
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A system of transfers in which the goal is either immediate or eventual balance in value.
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Unbalanced exchange
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A system of transfers in which one party attempts to make a profit.
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Generalized reciprocity
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Exchange involving the least conscious sense of interest in material gain or thought of what might be received in return.
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Pure gift
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Something given with no expectation or thought of a return.
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Expected reciprocity
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An exchange of approximately equally valued goods or services, usually between people roughly equal in social status.
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Redistribution
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A form of exchange that involves one person cllecting goods or money from many members ofa group who the, at a later time and at a public event, "returns" the pooled gods to everyone who contributed.
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Market exchange
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The buying and selling of commodities under competitive conditions in which the forces of supply and demand determine value.
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