ANTH 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Inequality, African Art, Market Structure
2 Nov 2016
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Human economic activity is often divided into three phases: These three phases are linked in economic systems: production. Forms of subsistence and forms of ownership are related: Nomadic foraging peoples tend to have community-based ownership of land resources. Farming peoples tend to have individual ownership. Labor and ownership who owns the products of my labor: labor. The activity linking human social groups to the material world around them; Human labor is always social labor: the organization of labor in society. Division of labor gender, age, skills, group membership (class, ethnicity, caste, race) Labor and social status: mode of production everything that goes into the production of the necessities of life; Productive forces labor, instruments, raw materials, knowledge. Relations of production the social structures that regulate the relations between humans in the production of goods: industrial production. Efficiency and the new notion of time: industrial agriculture. Use of machines and intensive technologies of cultivation, increased energy use.
