ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Herbivore, Social Stratification, Transhumance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: mcwrillaith

Document Summary

Family groups own what they produce. Ownership of what you produce: small surpluses. It is sustainable but you have to be able to move your gardens. Grew foods including maize (corn), beans, and squash, also called 3 sisters: planted by women. Economic system using domesticated land, animals, and the use of the products from the animals: milk, meat, bones, skin. Common in southern europe, sub-sahara africa, northern europe, middle east, Key features of domesticated animals: flexible diet, grow quickly, breed in captivity, pleasant herbivore animals, social hierarchy herd animals. Specialize in one or two animals; trade for other things that you need; extensive activity (must move animals to water and pasture) Animals are owned by a family but the land the animals graze on aren"t owned. Women in main camps processing meat and milk, horticulture: nomadic pastoralism. Sustainability and change: sustainable but you have to be able to move your animals. Draft animals to pull plows, tractors, etc.