c. If a family's banana fields were not producing any fruit at the time,a person could ask his neighbor for permission to take some bananas from his field d. a chief arrived from another village and while he sang to the villagers in the meetinghouse, some of the village leaders organized a collection of 2000 fish for the chief as a gift The next time a chief came around they organized a collection of e. Later that year some people who lived on the mainland arrived It was said that these people were the poor relatives of the people in this tribe. The visitors were given food, blankets, ammunition for their shotguns, and all sorts of provisions 5. Material Benefits of sharing and exchange a. Notion that hunting encourages exchange, because you often can t eat all the meat you' ve got before it goes bad. It makes more sense to exchange It b. Containers were a key to this development in human evolution: a large leaf, a piece of skin, a crude basket Means that someone can collect things for later exchange c. Studies show that there are material advantages to sharing i. Hunting is uncertain, sharing evens out the wild fluctuations of this ii. This works out in a lot of context: People on welfare(in one study )-By sharing at the beginning of the month when the check came in, it meant that people did bette an if they had shared their check 2. Found that people were much more likely to exchange things that people in the middle class would never loan beds. TV's couches 6. The value of things Much of what gift exchange does is social, not just materialc. If a family’s banana fields were not producing any fruit at the time, a person could ask his neighbor for permission to take some bananas from his field. d. A chief arrived from another village and while he sang to the villagers in the meetinghouse, some of the village leaders organized a collection of 2000 fish for the chief as a gift. i. The next time a chief came around, they organized a collection of thatch leaves. e. Later that year some people who lived on the mainland arrived. It was said that these people were the poor relatives of the people in this tribe. The visitors were given food, blankets, ammunition for their shotguns, and all sorts of provisions. 5. Material Benefits of Sharing and Exchange a. Notion that hunting encourages exchange, because you often can’t eat all the meat you’ve got before it goes bad. It makes more sense to exchange it. b. Containers were a key to this development in human evolution: a large leaf, a piece of skin, a crude basket i. Means that someone can collect things for later exchange. c. Studies show that there are material advantages to sharing. i. Hunting is uncertain, sharing evens out the wild fluctuations of this practice. ii. This works out in a lot of context: 1. People on welfare (in one study) - By sharing at the beginning of the month when the check came in, it meant that people did better, on average, than if they had not shared their check. 2. Found that people were much more likely to exchange things that people in the middle class would never loan: beds, TV’s, couches. 6. The value of things Much of what gift exchange does is social, not just material