ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Intensive Farming, Dona Marta, Favela
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Favela (dona marta) a colorful backdrop for other commodities ex. Such actions reinforce favela s brand (favela inc. ) through wide (global) circulation. Favela bodies are also commodified via fashion, e. g. story about son of bricklayer assistant who became a model after police discovered his father. Young man"s photo portfolio included serious, grief-stricken poses. Difficult for favela residents to escape tropes/ realities of crime, lost childhood, and state violence. Economies are cultural adaptations to the environment. They enable people to acquire and use resources to survive and thrive. Help meet our collective needs: food, water, shelter. Economies rooted in food production: foraging and hunting. Foraging: mobile, small groups to find seasonal food, egalitarian societies, embedded in wide networks (not isolated, e. g. Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers had a continent-wide exchange network: foraging practices have declined, but are still part of human culture, e. g. The food we consume now has been manipulated by humans over centuries.
