ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Usufruct, House Law, Ethology
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Economic systems-built upon adaptive strategies (studied in lecture 4) All of this stuff has an earth bound existence, comes from land. Energy resources- fire, peat, dung, comes from the land. And then building materials- common things like wood, metal, stone, comes from land. Resources have to be transformed in order to be used, ex: we can"t just use iron ore, it has to be melted. Water has to be clean, purified, trees have to be cut, chopped in order to be used for lumber. All this requires technology, requires tools: subsistence / energy / building materials, primacy of land, technology- requires tools and knowledge and skills, you have to know how to use the tools. Classical greek word for technology is related to concept of art and craft: labour, tools, skills, knowledge. Once you have land and technologies you need human labour, Transforming those resources, need human labor, labor will consist of specific activities- cutting wood, working on something.