The ethnographic case studies written by Marcel Mauss; The gift, thieving a chance by Rebecca prentice and Tongan women and migratory circuits of wealth by Ping-Ann Addo are all uniquely different, representing different traditions as well as different concepts based on their way of life. However, these three case studies, regardless of the differences in their concepts of culture, all represents similar traditions. These case studies all follow the rule of reciprocity, exchange, gifting and interdependence, representing the communal powers that bind a society together, ultimately constituting the ways people engage with contemporary conditions and changes. They vividly portray, through past experience of anthropologists, the atmosphere that
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Women’s work that have been commenced have recognised three critically distinctive processes through which evident properties, abilities and attributes accompanying with women’s work come to be commodified in the functioning of ‘women’s work’ (Mauss, 1990, p.6). Their work can be considered as the result of linking labour market progressions through which “skills” that are correlated with and accredited to women’s perceived nature, gender and sexuality. Nevertheless, of Mauss’s argument, however, it was indicated that women perform an essential role in his theory of gift. This is also particularly displayed in addos work. In Tongan family rituals, a sense of association is additionally stimulated through the trade of women’s valuables. Gardner and Grillo, in researching “transnational religious practices at the level of households and families” (2002, 180) precisely state that sides of customary and how ceremonies are presented emphasises transnationalism’s gendered character. By …show more content…
Prentice talks about the element of trust that is involved in the process of thieving among the factory workers. At the beginning, she talks about how the workers were reluctant to talk to her about the process of thieving, “shrugging off her question on the subject” (Prentice, 2015, p.88). I believe the main reason they did so was due do the missing element of trust between them relationship. However, as time progressed she realised that the gravity of words by just asking, had created an almost immediate sense of trust between her and the other factory workers as it was more impactful and important to them instead of actions as the “thieving didn’t become known to her until she became complicit in it” (Prentice, 2015, p.88). Similarly, in the text written by Addos, Ping-Ann, it is presented that when one family gifts Koloa to another it indexes, honours, and channels women’s mana as a positive and binding force that produces people and perpetuates culture (Ping-Ann, 2015, p. 103). I believe this is what creates the trust in between the families as something of so much value is being gifted with honour thus, presenting that the capacity of words and actions by simple means of speaking and comforting, the important element of trust could be created. In
Women’s work that have been commenced have recognised three critically distinctive processes through which evident properties, abilities and attributes accompanying with women’s work come to be commodified in the functioning of ‘women’s work’ (Mauss, 1990, p.6). Their work can be considered as the result of linking labour market progressions through which “skills” that are correlated with and accredited to women’s perceived nature, gender and sexuality. Nevertheless, of Mauss’s argument, however, it was indicated that women perform an essential role in his theory of gift. This is also particularly displayed in addos work. In Tongan family rituals, a sense of association is additionally stimulated through the trade of women’s valuables. Gardner and Grillo, in researching “transnational religious practices at the level of households and families” (2002, 180) precisely state that sides of customary and how ceremonies are presented emphasises transnationalism’s gendered character. By …show more content…
Prentice talks about the element of trust that is involved in the process of thieving among the factory workers. At the beginning, she talks about how the workers were reluctant to talk to her about the process of thieving, “shrugging off her question on the subject” (Prentice, 2015, p.88). I believe the main reason they did so was due do the missing element of trust between them relationship. However, as time progressed she realised that the gravity of words by just asking, had created an almost immediate sense of trust between her and the other factory workers as it was more impactful and important to them instead of actions as the “thieving didn’t become known to her until she became complicit in it” (Prentice, 2015, p.88). Similarly, in the text written by Addos, Ping-Ann, it is presented that when one family gifts Koloa to another it indexes, honours, and channels women’s mana as a positive and binding force that produces people and perpetuates culture (Ping-Ann, 2015, p. 103). I believe this is what creates the trust in between the families as something of so much value is being gifted with honour thus, presenting that the capacity of words and actions by simple means of speaking and comforting, the important element of trust could be created. In