ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Viburnum Trilobum, Pastoralism, Consumerism
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Produces crops through capital-intensive means, using machinery and inputs such as processed fertilizers instead of human and animal labor. Huge agricultural enterprise that produces goods solely for sale and are owned and operated by companies entirely reliant on hired labor. Creates an ebb and flow of workers depending on the task and time of year. Requires more in the way of labor inputs, tech and the use of nonrenewable natural resources than foraging, horticulture or pastoralism. The dominant pattern in a culture, of using up goods and services. A feast in which the host lavishes the guests with abundant quantities of the best food and many gifts. Most honorable foods are fish, oil, high-bush cranberries, and seal meat, and they will be served in ceremonial wooden bowls. Gifts include embroidered blankets, household articles such as carved wooden boxes and woven mats, canoes, and items of food.
