Sept. 23

1. Conclusions Preview
   1. In bands (and tribes), the greatest value is on a human life well lived. This is linked to goods through time (and giving).
   2. Tribal societies start widespread exchange of goods across community boundaries through raids and feasts. This is absolutely new in nature.
      
      
2. Values-in-goods, Values as moral guides; Time as the dimension that links the two kinds of values.
   1. Day
      1. staple goods
   2. Year and Seasons
      1. Seasonal staple goods
   3. Lifetime
      1. Puberty and Initiation: Mastery over important staples
      2. Marriage: Death for food?
      3. Death and Funerals: Valuables, symbols of the good life and lots of other goods (see p. 182)
   4. Disputing and Law
      
      
3. The Great Divide?
   1. Generalized and Balanced Reciprocity (definitions on page 195, see also Fig. 5.3 p. 115) vs.
      Balanced and Negative Reciprocity (definitions p. 196)
   2. This represents the settling down from bands into tribes
      1. Original bands behaved like gas "vapor" without impermeable boundaries.
   3. A world full of humans = Impermeable Boundaries
      1. Goods and people are exchanged across those boundaries.
         
         
4. Balanced and Negative Exchange across community boundaries became the key to human survival as tribes emerged. This is absolutely new in nature.