ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tapa Cloth, Nomadic Pastoralism, Emic And Etic
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Uiaku = village: 2 stories, description of maisin life, story of barker himself (anthropologist, central metaphor. Does this metaphor interest you, bore you, is there a central metaphor that you would use for. Economic anthropology: food gathering, food production, how goods and services are produced, distributed, consumed. Production: etic framework : a model for comparison (how people across different cumtures do similar things, economic systems. Dominant way of providing for peoples materials needs. Model: horticulture the maisin, foraging tahltan, pastoralism (animals will live with you, agriculture, industrial capitalism. From 1 to 5, the method gets newer. Specialized knowledge needed for each to live. Foraging food collectors/collection (other methods show production: hunting, gathering, fishing, digging, bark stripping, trapping/snaring, nomadic move around in predictable area (no aimless wandering, this method requires knowledge of area, extensive land use. Not always via use: oldest economic system. Men hunt, women gather (old stereotype made by male anthropologist)