ANT207H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nec, Kalahari Desert, Humus
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Social institutions and ecological view (use marxist theory: mode of production: ways of making a living. Relations of production: relations between the people, between the people and the object of production, and owner of relation. Foragers: non-existent in the world today because every society is touched / informed of global relation so the following is mostly historical. They can go off from the whole and work on their own: they have equal, they are knitted together by kinship obligation, moral ties of obligation to help each other when in need. Creates social insurance: generalised reciprocity: swapping without the immediate need for reciprocity. Found within family (sharing) the flats practiced something between balanced reciprocity- giftgiving ( we are balancing out reciprocity which can be delayed or immediate) In the absence of ability to store food, the !kung would share which cemented this generalised reciprocity.
