ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nomadic Pastoralism, Sub-Saharan Africa, Smallpox
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The dominant way a society provides for people"s material needs. In order of appearance in human history (top = newest, bottom = oldest) Not perfect categories (many people fit into multiple) How is labour organized gender lines, age. A sustainable economic system is one that balances resources taken form the environment with time for those resources to regenerate. Change some economic systems are effected negatively by change, they are not sustainable due to the actions of other economic systems. Land use extensive land use requires a lot of land, but not using all of the land, all of the time: intensive land use you use the same areas of land over and over again. Collecting food food collectors (not producers: foraging. Complicated activity must learn techniques, be knowledgeable of where to find what. Movement move around a large territory, often by seasons: extensive land use, nomads must know where to move it is not aimless wandering.
