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Native American Reciprocity

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Market exchange is the exchange of commerce through the price of goods, while reciprocity is equal giving and receiving. Market exchange (capitalism) is considered an intensely social relationship and is generally understood as giving money to get something. Oftentimes, these exchanges are conducted directly between members of society, and so, social interactions and behaviors form as a result of constant back and forth; business transactions. If one does not have money, then one does not have the means to own private property; you do not have the means to engage in market exchange. In the past, American settlers believed that they were buying chunks of land from the Native Americans and that that land now belonged to them. Native Americans, …show more content…

Birthday cards, Christmas cards, and wedding gifts are all forms of reciprocity because there is an unspoken expectation of an equal giving back of what has been received (not necessarily the same thing). Another example is intergenerational reciprocity, which involves parents caring for their children and then children growing up and caring for their parents. In India, a more complex form of reciprocity exists with the dowry of the bride. The bride’s family gives the groom’s family a dowry, which cements the two families together in a (hopefully) harmonious match. The gift of the groom marrying the bride is to give him and his family the dowry. The rule of reciprocity is that every gift requires a counter gift. Anthropologists suggest that reciprocity is like a “social glue,” and holds a moral aspect as well. The rules of kinship are still based on reciprocity. The Kula ring (ceremonial exchange) has an exchange that has no utilitarian value, only prestige. Armbands made of shell are distributed in one direction of the ring while shell necklaces are distributed in the other direction of the ring. This exchange ensures peaceful relations, equal prestige, friendliness, and good will, which is what usually forms from reciprocity in other social interactions as

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