ANT 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cousin Marriage, Egalitarianism, Bitcoin
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Do not work 15 hours a day, some cultures only spend 2 hours a day to get 2kcal they do not work that hard. Fish, insects, grazers, larvae, fruits, vegetables, all sizes of game, staples, nonfoods. Carefully assess costs/benefits (eg. don"t chase after rats) Type of food ecology/subsistence strategy can predetermine what kind of cultural system a society has (religious/political system) Most of subsistence from animal foods, not gathered plant foods. Sharing, storing, territorial defense, warfare/raiding, kin relations to aid subsistence. Generalized reciprocity: distribution with no account kept and no immediate or specific return is expected (altruistic) Balanced reciprocity: clear obligation to return within a specific time limit goods of nearly equal value. Keeping numbers down: infanticide, contraceptives, birth spacing, less sex, carrying capacity of land. Lower than farmers, but both are lower than agriculturalists. Most common marriage systems for foragers and forager horticulturalists. All us states allow second cousin marriage; many allow first cousin marriage.
