Too Many Bananas: A Man Named David Counts

In the article that I read called Too Many Bananas, a man named David Counts goes to a different country to do his field work with his family and in the article we learn that he experience three different situations involving food. David and his family learned several different lessons linking to the idea of “Reciprocity”. Reciprocity is defined as exchanging different items with others for reciprocal benefit. For David’s field study he went to Kandoka. As David and his family were outside the village one day, a woman from another village was walking down the road with a watermelon in her hand. She was headed towards David and his family. She approached David and his family and asked them if they would exchange the watermelon she had for money and they agree to do it, so the women took the money and went off and David and his family had the watermelon. To conclude the ending of this event, David ended up seeing the head man of his village and the man told David to give back the watermelon. The man did not want food being bought with money in the village David was staying at. …show more content…
A woman had brought bananas to the villagers, so David and his family got tons of bananas. When the village women left to go back home, David saw the head man of the village coming down to their home. David has told the man that they now have had way to many bananas in their home and the head man was angry at them for complaining about their being too many bananas. The head man had given David the idea to give the many bananas to his visitors that came over to the