ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Tutsi, Pastoralism, Hutu
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How the economy influences cultural and social patterns (super structure) Human survival cant exist without providing people with goods, humans require economics. It is a way to change the environment to sustain human life. People work in groups to reach these goals, to accomplish the obtaining of all of these things, you need to work in a group (families) Groups are studied to determine how they accomplish it (economic anthropology) Anthropologists are not interested in general rules, large scale interaction, they want to see how people function in real life, on a relatively small scale: use field work, use ethnographic method (describing literally, observing intensely) Revised the base and the superstructure influence each other, mutual. Relationship or base and superstructure in different economic systems. Different superstructures correlate with different kinds of bases (education, form of government) Can be arranged historically by their appearance. All of them co-exist, they may be in conflict.
