ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Melpa Language, Pastoralism, Fish Oil
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Since we have fallen behind, i am not going to cover some of the material on pastoralism and subsistence strategies in class. The material is straightforward, but some might be new to you. So i suggest that you look at the posted notes and slides. Many aspects of life and social organization are shaped by subsistence strategies. As in culture as adaptation and cultural materialism. Foragers tend to live in certain ways with certain social features, pastoralists tend to have other features, and farmers tend to have others yet. Variables include the size of groups or settlements, residential mobility vs. sedentism, equality vs. inequality of wealth, equality vs. hierarchy of power, etc. See the notes and slides for the features typical of each subsistence strategy. Various detailed aspects show how subsistence is tied up with . Kinship and social relations (the ju/"hoansi and herero), etc.
