ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wage Labour, Pastoralism, Communal Land
26 Dec 2016
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Domestication: origins of food production: transition to food production: neolithic (new stone) revolution. Shift to food productions: permanent settlements, larger populations. Slow transition: larger populations, costs of food production strategies. Continuing population growth: larger social groups, more permanent settlements. Stratification in terms of social status or wealth. Breeding & managing migratory herds domesticated grazing animals: often mix of animals. Primarily depend on animal products (not meat) Trade animals/products for non-local goods/services: symbiotic relations with farmer/settled peoples. General characteristics: semi-sedentary (also rely on mobility) (extensive land use, small communities (> than foragers); few possessions, communal land rights; individual livestock ownership, primarily family labour, but sharing is common, stratified; hierarchical. Mix of authoritarian & communal decision-making: typically male-oriented (men own animals, strict gender division of labour, settlement sizes; population densities, gender division of labour, decision-making. Modern pastoralists: usually engaged in some farming &/or wage labour, increasingly restricted mobility.
