ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Marvin Harris

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Tracy Prowse

Document Summary

Environmental reasons not suitable for area or scarce. Marvin harris dogs used for transport, hunting, protection, warmth and companionship. Therefore dogs will be eaten in cultures where their services are not needed and/or important. As in other aspects of life, food is an expression of our culture. Food is symbolic & ritualized ; it has meaning. Food and subsistence aspects of food examined in anthropology: Growing conditions: location of masses of land / temperature = major factors to what can grow. Carrying capacity : the number of people who can be sustained by the resources and environment in which they live subsistence affects: Peoples whose subsistence pattern is hunting and gathering.