ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Biological Anthropology, Patrilineality, Barter
25 Mar 2015
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Anthro 1aa3: food sex and death- lecture 14: using physical anthropology to investigate the consequences of agriculture (cont"d) Subsistence: how people make a living and meet nutritional requirements (agricultural, hunter gatherers, shepherds, etc. ) Relations between men and women and notions of gendered equality or inequality differ from society to society on the basis of subsistence strategies (among other things) Examples ju/"hoansi (southern africa) and inuit. Ju"/hoansi -- men and women both work to procure food and while the activities they undertake are different, both men and women"s labor is considered equal and necessary to the survival of the group. Men (hunters): will usually go out and hunt (giraffe, gazelle or rabbits) Women (gatherers): take girls or kids and procure while berries and nuts. Remained as hunter-gatherers because they lived in a desert. In the inuit climate limitations to agriculture. Is egalitarian in terms of gender and status. Both men and women"s roles are different but equal.
