ANP 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Measles, Pastoralism, Transhumance
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The diverse ways that people in societies make a living. Mid-20th century: revival of evolutionary thinking in north american cultural anthropology, new / neo-evolutionary theory rejected the failures 19th century evolutionism, example: unilinealism and racism. Focuses on how adaptation to different environments drives human diversity. Influenced by cybernetics the scientific study of communication in animals and machines. Leslie white: culture evolve by how they capture energy in their cultural systems, major turning points, sapienzation, domestication, and the industrial revolution. Foragers are not remnants of our paleolithic past. Sapienization: the development of homo sapiens from earlier species. Depend on wild plants, animals, and fish. Typically live in small groups, called bands : 10 50 kin-related individuals, egalitarian. Social life is organized around relationships of sharing and cooperation. Autonomy: ability to be independent and govern themselves. The men supplied between 20 40 percent of the calories consumed by members of the camp.
