User:Immanuelle/Economic anthropology

Economic anthropology is linked to the mode of production

It is linked to economics but is a distinct discipline

It generally moves away from markets and focuses on labor

Not interested in rationality. Interested in what people do and why they say they do it.

Three distinct modes of production in human history


 * 1) Domestic
 * 2) Tributary
 * 3) Capitalist
 * 4) Command is not included in the list but it should be

Domestic Production
Typical of foragers and small scale subsistence farmers

Shaped by kin relations

Tributary production
Subjects give some level of their economic output to rulers who provide some services