ANTHRO 41A Lecture 2: Lecture 2
17 Jul 2018
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Anthro 41a lecture notes week 1: the world before 1942. ~only 1% of world living in urban settings. +food gives energy determine how much labor to produce. +majority of people rely on farming as primary economic activity. Refers to european, african, asian continents (everything besides the americas) In/before 1400 energy need to work and survive come from tapping of biomass. Development of domestication of staple crop allow people produce in surplus. +bananas: 8k years ago in papua new guinea. +mean people not have to work as hard to produce calories needed. +freed some people to focus on other non-farming activities. ~also means they can live in urban settings. ~took lot more food/energy to do things needed to be done. ~no assistance of time and energy saving technology. ~map has lines around whole geography of continents. ~can figure out when us begins and when mexico starts. ~people don"t (cid:272)hallenge that (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause ho(cid:449) it is organized.
