Tappers and Trappers: Parallel Process in Acculturation

Murphy, Robert F.; Steward, Julian H.

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“…Nevertheless, case studies like that by Murphy and Steward (1956), proposed a model by which traditional peoples were "seduced" into dependence on imported manufactures and foodstuffs, through a process of luxuries becoming necessities. Foods, tools and ornaments, which at first were cheap, effective, or novel, drew people into market relations, which gradually expanded to include the majority of their material culture and livelihood.…”

Section: Themes In the Literaturementioning

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Why do the Indians Wear Adidas? Or, Culture Contact and the Relations of Consumption

Wilk

Arnould²

2016

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The study of the consumption of goods has never achieved the prominence in anthropology of either production or exchange. Yet the accelerating consumption of western goods in non-western societies is one of the most obtrusive cultural and economic trends of the last three centuries. This article addresses the general issue of why goods flow between cultural groups by re-examining the concept of consumption. It raises questions of importance to studies of development, material culture, ethnohistory, and symbolic anthropology.

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Section: Themes In the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Why do the Indians Wear Adidas? Or, Culture Contact and the Relations of Consumption

Wilk

Arnould²

2016

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“…While this shift almost certainly came about through a confluence of seculaR 1 and academic trends, Murphy and Steward's (1956) depiction of acculturation as an inevitable transformational process seems to have been particularly influential. For instance, VanStone (1960: 174), writing about the "successful combination of subsistence and wage economies" at Point Hope, Alaska, cites Murphy and Steward to support the idea that increasing dependence by the Inupiat on wage employment was certain to tip the local economy away from subsistence (ibid.…”

Section: The Acculturation Viewmentioning

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Inuit and modern hunter-gatherer subsistence

Wenzel

2014

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Il y a deux décennies, Asen Balikci (1989) et David Riches (1990) se demandaient si la recherche sur les Inuit, en dépit de la production d’une abondante littérature, avait contribué aux débats théoriques en anthropologie. Burch (1994) leur emboîte le pas en questionnant plus largement la pertinence des études sur les chasseurs-cueilleurs. La thèse centrale de cet article est que la recherche sur l’économie inuit a, en fait, largement contribué à redéfinir ce qu’est la subsistance. Autrefois décrite comme regroupant les activités économiques les plus élémentaires, la subsistance est aujourd’hui comprise comme une adaptation culturelle. Cela a aussi mis en lumière le fait que peu de sociétés peuvent être décrites telle qu’elles l’étaient dans Man the Hunter (Lee et DeVore 1968). Au contraire, aujourd’hui les chasseurs-cueilleurs de l’Arctique à l’Australie sont en contact quasi-constant avec les économies de marché et avec une réalité où l’argent joue un rôle crucial dans leurs modes de vie. C’est à cet égard que la recherche sur les Inuit, comme l’a noté Sahlins (1999), a contribué conceptuellement à la fois aux études sur les chasseurs-cueilleurs et à l’anthropologie.Some two decades ago, Asen Balikci (1989) and David Riches (1990) questioned whether research on Inuit, despite production of a voluminous literature, had made any contribution to theoretical issues in anthropology. On their heels, Burch (1994) asked very much the same about Hunter-Gatherer Studies. The thesis of the present paper is that research on Inuit economy has, in fact, contributed importantly to a rethinking of the shape and content of subsistence. Once described as encompassing the most basic economic activities, it is now understood as a cultural adaptation. This has import because few hunter-gatherer societies can be portrayed as they were at the time of the Man the Hunter symposium (Lee and DeVore 1968). Rather, today, hunter-gatherers, from the Arctic to Australia, experience near-constant contact with market economies and a reality in which money plays a critical part in their livelihoods. It is in this regard that research on Inuit, as noted by Sahlins (1999), has conceptually contributed both to Hunter-Gatherer Studies and to anthropology

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“…Prehistorically and to a degree after contact, fur-bearing animals such as the beaver also served as important parts of the native diet (JR, 26:129;Trigger 1969;Murphy and Steward 1968;Francis and Morantz 1983), but when Indians shifted to full involvement in the fur trade, these animals became more than just a food item. Fur became the medium of exchange by which Indians received the valued European products (Kroeber 1939).…”

Section: Materials Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%