ANTH 2500 Lecture 8: pdf (6)
26 Feb 2017
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Rome - 294-344 ad wheat prices increase 6,700% Rome used 7,500 acres of forest/year for heating. British empire bought 600,000 trees from russia/year for navy. Switch from charcoal to coal by mid-17c for heating. Cattle ranching, sugar cane, monocrop production, fuel and building timber. Freedom and variability at cost of diminishing returns. Energy is always the basis of cultural complexity. Revolves around declining energy use per capita as indicator of economic decline. Commodification: separation of the self from the product. Mass transportation/distribution - railways, iron and coal key. Infinite transformations non-consumption during production (e. g. computer software) - the concept of. Multiple arrays in space-time bias of communication - decreased time horizon, increased spatial spread. Emphasis on service and information instead of raw material products. 60% of norway"s national health services budget spent on information processing (eriksen 2001) Moving from things to signs as key product. Term can apply to amounts in product or to make/consumer product (herman et al 1990)
