Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Slater, Agribusiness, Kalahari Desert
8 Dec 2013
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Some of the most popular divisions: hunting and gathering; collect wild vegetables, hunt small animals, fish, subsistence agriculture; grow food for export. Each plot of land is planted with one crop: industrial agriculture; also in ontario agri-business , a single crop solf and turned into something else. Ju/hoansi - kung san, kalahari desert: horticulturalists: Ju/"hoansi: live in the desert, divided into 5 different groups. Products of desert as resources nuts, berries, lemons. During dry season they gather around permanent water holes and stay there. Spend 1/3 of there time visiting there camps. Most common value is sharing (only lions eat alone) every family shares what they have. May trade with outside groups never among themselves, everything is everybody"s. General characteristics of hunter-gatherer social and political organization: A division of labor based mainly on gender and age. Groups may come together for awhile and then disperse on a seasonal basis.
