ANTH 3220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Takers, Middle Ages, Industrial Revolution
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Access to means of production mostly self-sufficient o o. Class of division: class of surplus producers and surplus takers. Access to means of production tribute to surplus takers (rent and labor) Chapter 2 the emergence of capitalism: kin based and tributary modes. In tributary system labour is not sold, it is a system of surplus supply and demand. In canada we are in tributary system where we dictate division of labour and how goods. 3. (producers and takers) (e. g. famers have own land and have access to resources in order to produce. Not one ruling class but an abundance of groups. 5. people (knights and dukes, etc. : warlord is person who controls territory by force and coercion. Lord is a political position through the threat of force. In order to have access to land you have to pay loyalty to the above figures. In middle ages there was a nobility type of system.