ANTHROP 4S03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Original Affluent Society, Sickle-Cell Disease, Animal Husbandry

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 4S03
• Professor: David Counts

Document Summary

Patterns of subsistence food- procuring strategies, sometimes called the subsistence round. Throughout human history, people adopted strategies to secure their basic needs such as food for example. 5 patterns of subsistence: foraging (hunting and gathering, pastoralism, horticulture. The su(cid:271)sisten(cid:272)e pattern follo(cid:449)ed influen(cid:272)es e(cid:448)ery aspe(cid:272)t of the group"s (cid:272)ulture, su(cid:272)h as community size and kinship. Communities have laws, rights, and regulations which are coping mechanisms called the relations of production. Culture is integrated so that the particular subsistence pattern influences all other aspects of their culture such as community size, permanence of settlements, marriage customs, and kinship. Example: the assiniboine were hunter-gatherers living in small nomadic bands. This subsistence pattern allowed them to follow the herds of bison that roamed the canadian prairies before the. How humans deal with the contingencies of daily life. Interaction between the changes that an organism makes in its environment and the changes the environment makes in the organism (organism->/