ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Transhumance, Industrial Revolution, Pastoralism
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Anthro 10/14 social organization and techniques of production. Institution: social relations organized around a particular theme or task. B: social structure: an identification of the diff social groups that make up society and the relations between them. Production: always involves deployment of human labor. Labor is socially organized: techniques of production. B. 2. reproduction and survival of crops and stuff. Forms of energy human and animal muscle power. Extensive and intensive forms (b. 3. a. 1) extensive: low energy inputs (b. 3. a. 2) Techniques, not social types: people mix techniques. Transhumance diff production techniques in diff seasons of the year. Change btwn techniques doesn"t always follow unilinear evolutionary models. Marginal environments (not very good) ex deserts, close to the arctic. Material conditions (a. 4. a. 1) small groups (a. 4. a. 2) move seasonally (a. 4. a. 3) dry season band members come together around water hole (a. 4. a. 4) rainy season split up into smaller groups spread out. Food procurement (a. 4. b. 1) hunting males, success 23% of ventures (a. 4. b. 2) gathering mostly women (a. 4. b. 3)
