ANT100Y1 Lecture 8: Linguistics 8
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Bridewealth and bride service: donation of money and/or property, or of labor, by groom and family to bride and family. Dowry: bride and family give value to the bridegroom and family, practiced in europe, china, india, worldwide historically less common than bridewealth. Base and superstructure: superstructure (government, family, religion, culture, base (economy) --> means of production. Means of production: natural resources, tools, mines, factories, offices. Relations of production: social relations required by economy, co-worker, lord/serf, employer/employee, different relations of production in different economic systems (in text, rop called. Revised model: base and superstructure mutually influence one another, superstructure: culture, politics, family, religion, education, base: economy: means and relations of production. History of economic systems: foraging (hunting and gathering, pastoralism (herding, nomadism, horticulture (slash and burn, post-industrial society (present) Foraging: economic base: minimal manipulation of nature, upper palaeolithic (50-40,000 years ago, herd hunting in groups.
