Please scroll and contribute at least 2 posts to this Discussion Board on at least 2 distinct questions threads. Each post will be given points for the following:

1) adequate length (approximately 250 words)

2) clarity and good writing

3) including a specific example

4) including an in-text citation (to either assigned or extra material must use a proper citation format)

*** if you pull from an outside source you must include a bibliographic reference AND an in-text citation

5) including a question that you are left with.

To receive full credit, be sure to add something new to the thread and answer the question directly.

What are some of the beliefs about hunter-gatherer societies that Sahlins argues against? Why did anthropologists come to believe these things?

Sahlins points out that systems of subsistence (how a community produces food) have political and social effects. What effect does the Trobrianders (the people Weiner describes) system of subsistence have on their political and social life?