ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Green Belt Movement, Subsistence Agriculture, Cultural Landscape
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Intensive agriculture: large-scale, often commercial agriculture: onkga film. Kawelka: dress up in fancy clothes, get frustrated by freeloaders, grieve over death, desire for status & power, pigs as food, value, and relationships, betrayal, insults, and conflict. Give 4 pigs ongka gives bag 6 after a few years. Chiefs don"t have complete power of tribe, only persuade; onkga (big man) doesn"t necessarily hold all the power. Polygamy (onkga has 4 wives & 9 kids) If money looks after white people, pigs look after us pigs only worthwhile thing; source of money & comfort. Sweet potatoes are basic food for people & animals. Pigs difficult to take care of so can"t have too many but can give them away in a big public show (impress people) Killed people w/spears & axes so gave them pigs to feel better. If a big man dies suddenly believed to have been killed by sorcery people march in anger over person who did it.
