ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Collective Ownership
29 May 2020
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What"s mine is yours, what"s yours is mine. Sharing is not about being nice, it"s a matter of survival. Gender equality; men and women are likely to have similar or equal levels of social power; ex) from the film n!ai. She has to marry gunda but doesn"t have to sleep with him, in fact she sleeps with anyone she wants. Subsistence - the way you produce/acquire resources to survive (day to day things in life) Hunt for their food (meat) and gather (nuts and other food) Women provide the vast majority of calories that sustain the society through gathering. Men"s meat is worthless - form of social control; insulting the men"s meat to keep them humble. Admonishment - talking someone down to keep the social order: technology - ex) poison they use on arrows to kill their game; their technology is pretty elementary and primitive but it helps them survive.
