ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pastoralism, Buzkashi, Centre-Left Politics
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The base of culture, the means and relations of production. How the economy (base) influences cultural patterns and social arrangements (superstructure) A history of economic systems with their accompanying cultural patterns & social arrangements. Throat music is a reflection of an economy that is always moving around. Requires ways to provision people with food, clothing etc. and ways to change the environment so it will support human life (interacting with the environment to get what we need) To accomplish this, humans work in groups. The family is an economic unit divide labour. How it is accomplished by groups is studied by anthropological economics economic anthropology. Anthropologists are less interested in general rules (less focus on macro stuff) and more on how specific policies function in the field (field work) through enthrographic methods. Describing people and observing people in small groups. The results are less generalizable but more true to life.
