ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Pastoralism, Industrial Revolution, Betsileo People

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Brent Pav

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Lecture 17: making a living: cohen (1974): adaptive strategy describes a society"s system of economic production. Remaining foragers at least partially dependent on food production or food producers. Foraging survived mainly in environments unfavorable to food production or could support themselves adequately by hunting and gathering: correlates of foraging. Correlations: association or covariation with two or more variables. Bands: small groups (less than 100 people: members related by kinship or marriage, may split up during part of the year, mobility. Gender-based division of labor: men typically hunt and fish, women gather and collect (these roles are not always exclusive, gathering tends to contribute more to the diet than hunting and fishing do (tropical and semitropical foragers) Age-based social distinctions: horticulture: cultivation that does not make intensive use of land, labor, capital, or machinery. Shifting between plots of land; exhausted plots left fallow for a period of time: agriculture: requires more labor than horticulture because it uses land intensively and continuously.