This article is a synopsis of the research project embracing a variety of topics and themes concerning things that are accepted as resources in the multi-layered fields of human activity. The project aims at developing a new integrative perspective of anthropological research through focusing upon feedback processes between formations of ‘symbolic resources’ on the one hand, and of ‘ecological resources’ on the other. These two categories of resources combine to constitute the very basis that any human society works on. Theoretical attempts are directed at establishing the thesis that modes of their allocation, distribution and common sharing reveal the most fundamental aspects of social mechanisms.
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