Multiple Choice
Economic anthropologists have been concerned with two main questions,one focusing on systems of human behavior and the other on the individuals who participate in those systems.The first question is: How are production,distribution,and consumption organized in different societies? The second question is:
A) Why has the myth of the profit-maximizing individual been so pervasive, despite evidence to the contrary?
B) What are the best ways to convince individuals in funding agencies of the value of ethnographic knowledge in the realm of economics?
C) What encourages overconsumption in Western economies?
D) What motivates people in different cultures to produce, distribute or exchange, and consume?
E) What has been the impact of globalization at the level of individuals?
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