ANTH 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Richard Borshay Lee, Emic And Etic, Nationstates
25 Aug 2019
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Adaptive strategies : a group"s system of economic production. People everywhere were foragers until domestication of plants and animals - 10,000 years ago. What people gather is unique to environment. Prominent in certain environments (cold areas, slands, forests, deserts) Live in bands= unit of social organization that includes. Distinguish by age (respect for elders) and gender (men hunt and women gather, which ultimately contributes more to diet) Not isolated or pristine- live in nation-states and have contact with outsiders. Eating christmas in the kalahari (richard borshay lee) Research conducted with the !kung (etic name) or. He bought an ox for christmas- they teased him that it was too small. They bring people down to size who brag. The cultivation of plants for subsistence through non-intensive use of land and labor. Use simple tools (like hoes, digging sticks) Use shifting cultivation of plots - plots lie fallow for varying lengths of time.
