ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intercropping, Cardiovascular Disease, Industrial Revolution
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Essay: production, requires the deployment of labor, labor is socially organized, techniques of production, foraging, pre-industrial agriculture, extensive and intensive form, pastoralism. Monday, january 30, 2017: move to rivers with cattle and sh (c) techniques, not social types, change between techniques doesn"t always follow unlined evolutionary models, san foragers of kalahari desert in southern africa. Foraging: overview, foragers live in smaller group, found in marginal environments, eg: san foragers in the kalahari desert, bottom of south africa (location of desert, environment of kalahari, not bleak -> some plant life. 71: leisure, san spent 2. 5 days/week foraging, 20 hours/week in all maintenance activities, health status. Monday, january 30, 2017: low cardiovascular disease rates diet high in ber / low in fats, 20% of population over 60 years of age c) Mean life expectancy difference = more people are living to be old: sharing of resource: a survival strategy, generalized reciprocity, everybody gets a share of everything.
