Question

Explain the mode of exchange in the tribal socienty

Answer 1

The patterns of tribal society are related to a dependency upon horticultural system cultivation, marked by expensive forms of crop production with high land and low labour and capital inputs.

A tribal system as such is understood as an extensive territorial system based on localized, land-owning units, usually in the form of corporate kinship groups, integrated on a wider level by cross-cutting social groupings.

Tribal societies marked by the following social features and institutions:

moderate population densities, between 100 and 300/sq. mile

sedentarism, i.e., settlement in permanent villages

localized unilineal descent groups that allocate land use and assume other corporate functions

intergroup integration through the development of pan-tribal sodalities, such as age grades

absence of occupational specialization, wealth stratification, or political centralization

The Yanomamo and Akan are both horticultural peoples with tribal elements in their social orders, although the Akan have elaborate centralized systems of kingship.

Answer 2

Barter system is followed . in this they exchange their commodities.