ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rationality, Pastoralism, Shifting Cultivation
Document Summary
Borders and the european migrant/refugee crisis: distinguish migrants and refugee, borders - symbolic or functional, power/structure dynamic of controlling borders, agency and power on the border. Kim davis and same sex marriage o. Function and meaning of same sex marriage: agency and structure. The productivity of any particular environment is related to the type of technology used to exploit it. Culture and social organization are also adapted to the environment and subsistence strategies: manifesting in a variety of values, religious rituals, and kinship organizations. Since the focus is on broad, general patterns, we will discuss subsistence strategies in terms of typologies: classification according to general type. No one perfect example of a typology. Pattern of behavior used by a society to transform obtained food and other essentials in an environment. Anthropologists use subsistence strategies as a way to understand different societies. For 99% of our existence, we have been foragers. Relies on food naturally available in the environment.
