Commodity

The calabash and the horn The calabash and the horn are objects of great cultural value in the bakossi and ngemba ethnic groups in the South West and North West regions of Cameroon respectively. While the calabash Is typical to the bakossi and the horn to the ngemba, both are sometimes used together in some cases. To a stranger, the calabash is simply a bottle gourd or a calabash gourd which is a large vine fruit and a horn is a hard curved and pointed outgrowth on the head of some animals like…

Harvard University. Having been a recipient to many awards and fellowships it is, more than, safe to say that Beckert has the authority to write on the economic, social, and political history of capitalism on the specific commodity of cotton. Writing of such topics is what the book is primarily about, as he expresses why the history of cotton is so important today and revealing harsh information of capitalists, and what capitalism was five hundred or so years ago. Mentions of slavery were to be…

Gaelle Brannellec-Schachar, a scholar in Archeology and Ancient history, in ‘The archeological evidence for reconstructing patter of the Roman Trade’, defines trade as exchange of goods and services between individuals, companies, business and governments through the act of buying and selling (Schachar 1). In a more archeological term, Schachar defines trade as the transformation of people and communities through the production of goods and services for the purpose of exchange for other goods…

or combated each other in the final outcome. England at this point in time – being about the beginning of the 17th century – had invented new forms of businesses to stimulate the colonization of the New World and invoke the trade of special commodities. But with this overhaul of cultivation in different industries came the need for another ‘highly important’ asset.…

Emma Goldman on Demoralizing “Moralities” In “Victims of Morality” Emma Goldman argued that women perceive marriage as a necessary, negotiable agreement whereby wives sell their bodies as sexual commodities in exchange for economic stability from their husbands. During the early 1900s, a woman’s virtuous sexual freedom served as a threat to a husband’s expectations, and activists similar to Goldman fought to redefine this notion of sexual freedom. Societal institutions, embedded within…

are evident in modern society. In fact, the myths are prevalent in nearly every aspect of modern society due to the extensive reaches and capabilities of corporations. Able to interact with people worldwide, companies spread Greek ideas with the commodities they produce and sell. Modern companies use imagery and symbolism that allude to classical Greek myths to add background and details to their company’s name and products; moreover, as a part of their marketing plan, they deliberately…

tasks and activities. Becker’s (1965) theory assumes in line with the neoclassical economic school that the members of a household make rational choices regarding the transformation process where market goods and time are combined to produce basic commodities to achieve a utility…

categories as Chinese or barbarians due to the limitations of contact with other cultures (Neil and Laver, 2001). The establishment of the Silk Road opened new pathways for cultures to interact. The Silk Road’s name came from a precious Chinese commodity known as silk. The Silk Road was not a single road, but rather several trade routes, stretching all the way to Spain, and ultimately lead the routes to the ancient Chinese capital at Xian, thus, creating an international trade network (Li, 2017)…

How does culture become reconfigured for different audiences and how does that reproduce inequality? Who ascribes value to “high” and “low” culture? In order to answer these questions, we must look further into the rise and fall of American culture. Culture is not something tangible that anyone can put under a telescope to examine, it changes all the time. When the problem of culture comes into play in any point of American history it begins with the separation of class. This separation is…

The U.S. health care system does not meet the perimeters of a free or market-based system. In a free or market-based system, the price of health services is an established agreement between providers and patients. A free market is an economic system that allows the price of products to be determined by unrestricted competition in the market. Under a market-based system, prices are determined by supply and demand and the government has little control over production or trade. It is interesting…