ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Original Affluent Society, Pastoralism, Wage Labour

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 1101
• Professor: Deborah Sick

Document Summary

Evidence of seeds and other types of plants appearing more frequently. Shift to food production: more evidence of permanent settlements, larger populations. Slow transition: happened at different parts of the world during different time periods (over thousands of years, to the point where food production systems are more populate than foraging. Foragers work less: original affluent society overall, forages do not put in many hours to obtain their food as opposed to farmers. Farming is more monotonous (you are more settled, repeating jobs) Increase risk disease, social conflict (people are settling close to each other, spreading diseases and must devise ways to deal with conflict) Increase need defense (defending territory from outsiders), trade, social controls. Possible causes for transition: role of population growth, discovery of agriculture leads to larger populations, larger populations lead to adoption of agriculture? b. i. Continuing population growth: larger social groups human societies come up with different ways in organizing those social groups.