ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Genetically Modified Crops, Communal Land

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

Document Summary

Ant 1101 lecture vi horticulture : horticulture (swidden agriculture/shifting cultivation/ slash & burn agriculture) Increase inputs to increase plant food supplies . 2 simple technologies primary human energy (cid:1055) . 4 use natural processes to replenish soil . Extensive land use: rotation and fallow . Women contribute directly: men cut/burn; women plant/harvest : (cid:1252)/ ; . *video: shifting cultivation what difficulty that they tribute (infertile: intensive agriculture , increased human inputs and use of non-human energy (ex: fertilizers ; animal traction, allows long-term/permanent cultivation of fields / (cid:1473) . Intensive land use : often includes domestic animals , use of fertilizers , more complex technologies (cid:2002) . Plow, animal traction, crop rotation, irrigation (cid:1288) : characteristics of intensive agricultural societies: , much larger and permanent settlements (x1000s) (x1000, fairly strict division of labour (cid:1251) . Age and sex, but rules vary (cid:1654) , (cid:1379) Women generally contribute less directly to food production than men- but exceptions exist .