ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bactrian Camel, Dromedary, Banteng
2 Mar 2015
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3 pastoralism: milk production, meet production. Domesticated animals: rainfall is unpredictable, middle east, south europe, africa, us southwest (sheep, animals (jared diamond, 148 species 45kg, 14 have been domesticated. Pig (not usually the basis for a pastoral economy: nine minor domesticated animals. Mithan (southeast asian ox: characteristics of pastoral economics, herds social hierarchy leader, flexible diet, grow quickly, pastoralists movement. Take animals to waterholes and grass (graze) 1 transhumance pastoralism: men and boys work with the animals, women and younger children village (horticulture) 2 nomadic pastoralism: everyone moves with the animals, tibet. 3 soami (scandinavia: men reindeer herding, women processing. 4 navajo: arigama, sleep women"s property, matrilineal. Yes, but - must be able to move animals. Intensive eco system: fertilizers, irrigation allows land to be used over and over. Industrial agriculture lower number of people, higher number of machines: tractors, plows, drought animals. Family farms: production by and for a family.
