ATH 175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fictive Kinship, Cassava, Body Painting
29 Aug 2016
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Foraging cultures: hunting/gathering, until 10 thousand years ago all humans were foragers. Environmental specifics created contrasts between foraging populations some were big game hunters, others collected and hunted a wider range of animals and plants. But the ancient foraging economies had one thing in common: people relied on nature for food and other necessities. Today almost all foragers depend on at least one type of produced food. All modern foragers live in state level societies and have contact with outsiders who are farmers. They are not survivors of the stone age they are 21st century people influenced by regional, national, and international forces and policies. All foragers live in marginal environments, areas in which people who are farmers do not have an interest. Correlates of foraging: ethnographic studies of hundreds of cultures have revealed many correlates between economy and social life. Associated with each strategy is a bundle of particular cultural features.
