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Learning ObjectivesAfter finishing this chapter, students should be able to understand:
- Understand the characteristics of hunter-gatherer, horticultural, pastoralist, and agricultural societies and capitalistic market societies.
- Understand the gender and hierarchy components of these production systems.
- Understand the economic and political structures associated with reciprocal, delayed, and generalized exchange systems.
- Understand the multiple meanings of markets, and the role of globalization in contemporary economic relationships around the world.
- Understand the culture-specific interpretation of, and resistance to, globalization.
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