Question

As a child, you may have received a small allowance—a bit of money on a somewhat regular occasion that you could use as you wished. This typically comes from a parent who also works at a regular job to support the family? What would an anthropologist call this?

Answer 1

Answer: Redistribution

Explanation: Redistribution usually entails a reallocation of resources between a family or community. It occurs when income or profits made by working class members of a family or commmunity are colloctively amassed and shared between all the members of family or community, both working class and non working class. Redistribution essentially requires that reallocation of sharing of a massed income be among family or community members and not between two distinct individuals as in the case of RECIPROCITY.