SOSA 1050X Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bourgeoisie, Pastoralism, Bar And Bat Mitzvah

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1050X
• Professor: Laura Eramian

Document Summary

Exam review: questions from students and professors answers. Horticulture: gardening, first stages of agriculture, need a large territory to rotate land (characteristic slash and burn often used) Agriculture: requires a large plot of land, not rotating your plots, supports a much larger population. Industrial agriculture: decline in labor market because less people are needed for more food to be grown. Pastoralism: the idea that you herd domesticated animals for milk/meat. Saphir-warf hypothesis: language constrains the thoughts that we have, language is a prison house. You can still explain something you don"t understand in your own words. Illness is a battle" not a universal metaphor. There is a relation between language and thought. Mode of production: forces of production + relations of production. Labor is the source of value, knowledge and skills or workers. Bourgeoisie: higher status, own the raw equipment, very rich. Proletariat: their labor makes the raw equipment work, paid less.