Kwakiutl Economic Systems
Types of Production Hunter/gatherers Horticulturalists Pastoralists Peasants Intensive agriculturalists
Resource Allocation Access to resources Exchange of service Labor technology resource conservation natural limits external controls Exchange of service Labor who owns product of labor ability to hold resources for better price
Exchange Reciprocity Redistribution Market exchange expectation of a later return Redistribution Potlatch Market exchange Trade of items Money economy
Production: the conversion of resources Domestic mode of production Chayanov’s rule more labor, less hard work Tributary type Industrial society mechanized Post industrial service oriented
Division of Labor By sex By age Technology Specialists arise with surplus production
Labor optimal foraging theory cost benefits decision making
Kwakuitl Subsistence oriented rules Future oriented