life without gambling
What is Life Without Gambling?
After reading about Dr. Tamokashis field work I realized how gambling is an incredibly important aspect of the Gende people of the Yandera village. In our culture gambling is looked down upon. However, for the Gende people it helps redistribute the wealth back into the economic system to those who are in need. If an anthropologist who had an ethnocentric view would walk into the Gende culture the effects could be disastrous. By taking away something as minuet to us as gambling it would quite possibly cause a huge downward spiral to their cultures overall well being. I believe that if there were no funds for the people in need which in turn would affect the exchange of goods to decrease and the poverty rate to sky rocket, and lastly the disease rate would also increase dramatically.
If there are less funds in the economy there will be a decrease in the amount of goods that can be exchanged. The Gende people use the exchange of goods as a major source of monetary value. If gambling is taken into consideration for a main source of funds and it is suddenly taken away from the community, there would be a dramatic loss of funds. According to Dr. Tamakoshi “the winnings were almost always invested in some productive enterprise or exchange, or at least put back into the gaming system for others to win.” (Tamakoshi) . Without the proper amount of funds the Gende people would have a smaller amount of goods to trade leaving their economy at a greater loss.
In correlation to the loss of funds there would be an increase in the poverty rate due to the economy being down. The increase in poverty rate would affect how many people would be able to exchange goods and live their daily lives. If the poverty rate rises it is possible for this to snow. With lack of funds and an extraordinary decrease in the exchange of goods the overall community would have less monetary value.
Without the resources for caring for the sick the disease rate would be
After reading about Dr. Tamokashis field work I realized how gambling is an incredibly important aspect of the Gende people of the Yandera village. In our culture gambling is looked down upon. However, for the Gende people it helps redistribute the wealth back into the economic system to those who are in need. If an anthropologist who had an ethnocentric view would walk into the Gende culture the effects could be disastrous. By taking away something as minuet to us as gambling it would quite possibly cause a huge downward spiral to their cultures overall well being. I believe that if there were no funds for the people in need which in turn would affect the exchange of goods to decrease and the poverty rate to sky rocket, and lastly the disease rate would also increase dramatically.
If there are less funds in the economy there will be a decrease in the amount of goods that can be exchanged. The Gende people use the exchange of goods as a major source of monetary value. If gambling is taken into consideration for a main source of funds and it is suddenly taken away from the community, there would be a dramatic loss of funds. According to Dr. Tamakoshi “the winnings were almost always invested in some productive enterprise or exchange, or at least put back into the gaming system for others to win.” (Tamakoshi) . Without the proper amount of funds the Gende people would have a smaller amount of goods to trade leaving their economy at a greater loss.
In correlation to the loss of funds there would be an increase in the poverty rate due to the economy being down. The increase in poverty rate would affect how many people would be able to exchange goods and live their daily lives. If the poverty rate rises it is possible for this to snow. With lack of funds and an extraordinary decrease in the exchange of goods the overall community would have less monetary value.
Without the resources for caring for the sick the disease rate would be
Cited: Tamakoshi, Laura. "The Anthropologist in the field." . N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct 2013. Nanda, Serena , and Richard L. Warms. Culture Counts, A Concise Introduction To Cultural Anthropology. 2cnd. Wadsworth Pub Co, 2012. print. Jennifer Balliet Professor Reilly Cultural Anthropology 10/15/2013