ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Consumerism, Free Range
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Involved in tourism managing support in their own values/interests. Live in larger settlements & engage in very little way of foraging activity. Adapted to rubber plantations region by combing horticulture practices with work rubber farms: leave traditional villages to live in rubber area year round. Shift in gender roles btw horticultural villages / rubber farms: creative response to changes in economic practices / conditions. Political changes at state level (shift from private to state managed) herding back to private family herding. Dependence on state services - collapse of services still being felt today. Increases in public spending small family farmers to dependence on wage work: necessities of life. Model change increasingly common in latter half of 20th century. Export clashed with local values, in gender and identity. Modes of productive organization are connected with wider systems of cultural values. Dominant way in culture of using up goods and services.
