ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Pastoralism, Economic System, Friedrich Engels
17/03/2016
SCL Lecture 8
Economics: The Base of Culture, The Means and Relations of Production
Reading:
Lecture Themes:
• How the economy (base) influences cultural and social arrangements (superstructure)
• A history of economic systems with their accompanying cultural patterns and social
arrangements
Lecture Goals:
• To describe the relationship between base and superstructure that distinguishes
different economic systems
Each economic system has distinctive means and relations of production, which
correlate with certain kinds of superstructure (such as political structure, beliefs,
rituals, art, etc.)
Economic systems can be arranged historically in terms of their appearance
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The Base of Culture:
• Human survival requires
Ways to provision people with food, clothing, etc.
Ways to change the environment so it will support human life
• To accomplish this, people work in groups (this is studied by economic anthropologists)
Economics Regular and Anthropological:
• Anthropologists are less interested general rules, and are more interested in how
speifi poliies futio i the field
• And they pursue the ethnographic method
• The results are less generalizable, but more true to life
Base and Superstructure:
• Karl Mark (father of modern left wing)
1818-1883
economist, sociologist, revolutionary socialist
was not a communist, although he offered the Communist Manifesto with friend
Friedrich Engels
• classic Marxist model
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Economics: the base of culture, the means and relations of production. Lecture themes: how the economy (base) influences cultural and social arrangements (superstructure, a history of economic systems with their accompanying cultural patterns and social arrangements. Lecture goals: to describe the relationship between base and superstructure that distinguishes different economic systems. Each economic system has distinctive means and relations of production, which correlate with certain kinds of superstructure (such as political structure, beliefs, rituals, art, etc. ) Economic systems can be arranged historically in terms of their appearance. The base of culture: human survival requires . Ways to provision people with food, clothing, etc. Ways to change the environment so it will support human life: to accomplish this, people work in groups (this is studied by economic anthropologists) Base and superstructure: karl mark (father of modern left wing) Was not a communist, although he offered the communist manifesto with friend.
