1. Debt 1.Ethnology vs. Ethnography 2.Gift Exchange, Reciprocity, and the Market (the Human and Market Economies) 3.Money as Cultural 4.Capitalism as an Economic System 5.Cultural Change: Ideas or Materialism?

2. Ethnology and Ethnography What do these terms mean?

3. “Adoption in Cross-Cultural Perspective” by Jack Goody (1969) Adoption common in Eurasia but doesn’t exist in sub-Saharan Africa (instead, fosterage or distributed parenting) What’s the difference between adoption and fosterage? Comparative analysis of adoption in ancient Rome, ancient Greece, India, and China Adoption is important for the inheritance of a man’s property, who can continue a man's name and often his worship. Needs of adopting parent are paramount. In the African case, where the productive system makes less intensive use of land and there is less to leave in terms of restricted resources, property is less problematic and may pass through brothers of nephews; meanwhile personal continuity is often maintained through taking on wives rather than children.

4. Ch. 3. Luring Your Child into This Life: A Beng Path for Infant Care Ch. 4. Gift from the Gods: A Balinese Guide to Early Child Rearing Ch. 5. Making Babies in a Turkish Village Ch. 6. Infants of the Dreaming: A Warlpiri Guide to Child Care Ch. 7. The View from the Wuro: A Guide to Child Rearing for Fulani Parents Ch. 8. Never Leave Your Little One Alone: Raising an Ifaluk Child

5. Ethnology and Ethnography: What are the strengths and weaknesses of each approach?

6. Activist, very involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement (2011) and World Trade Organization protests in Seattle (1999) Ethnographic fieldwork in Madagascar Polemical book: seeks to imagine a different kind of future, p. 391 But also well-informed and covers some very important ground in economic anthropology David Graeber Professor of Anthropology London School of Economics