ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Maisin Language, Economic Anthropology, Economic System
16 Mar 2016
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Economic systems: dominate way a society provide for peoples material needs, how people make a living. Foraging (oldest: order of appearance in human history, not evolutionary sequence, not perfect categories, all complicated activities require specialized knowledge. For each system: how they work, tools you need, labor gendered labor, age, property who owns what, sustainability and change. Balances resources taken from the environment with time for resources to regenerate: change some economic systems are effected requatively (not sustainable) because of the outcome of others, land use. Requires a lot of land bus not using all land all the time. Using some land over an over: foraging, oldest economic system, collecting food food collectors, hunting and gathering, fishing, trapping, snaring, complicated activity, movement move around a large territory (nomads) by season. Extensive land use: in danger of disappearing, labor. No land ownership / use rights: sustainability. Foraging is sustainable but you must be able to move.
