ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Inuit Diet, Family Of Sets, Surplus Product
31 Mar 2016
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2. 5 gender & subsistence gender in the past. Pastoralism: more labour to divide, more gendered division of labour, maasai kenya , women in charge of sheep and goat and cows, men go herd cattle, largely egalitarian, social status equality. Gender in pastoral & horticultural societies: related to control of distribution of produce and goods, egalitarian societies (e. g. , iroquois, women and men have comparable economic roles, non-egalitarian societies (e. g. , igbo, men control property. Agriculture: food production specialization, subsistence strategy focusing on intensive farming, investing a great deal of time energy and technology, centralized gov, surplus production, social stratification, sedentism control of land important. Gender in agricultural societies: increasingly complex society, variable degrees of male dominance, depends on local circumstances, in general control of land. Grinding grain on a saddle quern at abu hureyra. Gender & society at catalhoyuk: basis of claims for a female run area, how can claims be tested archaeologically, what is significance, modern turkey, earliest cities in world.
