ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Upper Paleolithic, Economic Anthropology, Economic System
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Lecture themes: how the economy (base) influences cultural patterns and social arrangements (superstructure, a history of economic systems with their accompanying cultural patterns and social arrangements. The base of culture= economics: human survival requires first of all. Ways to provision ppl with food, clothing,etc and. Ways to change the environment so it will support human life: to accomplish this, humans work in groups. How it is accomplished by groups is studied by economic anthropology. Economic regular and anthropological: anthropologists are less interested in general rules, and more in how specific policies function in the field ; and they pursue the ethnographic method, less generalizable but more realistic. Base and superstructure: karl marx (1818-1883) Means of production: natural resources, tools, mines, factories, offices, infrastructure. Relations of production: how ppl organize to produce, the social relationships required by the economy, co workers, lord/serf, employer/employee, different relations of production in different economic systems ( note: in the book systems of production)
