ANTH 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Telling Stories, San People, Cultural Anthropology
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foragers: people who subsist by gathering plant and animal food and not by tending them. Also called hunter/gatherers, but now thought to perhaps have the wrong connotation. Earliest humans and hominins probably scavengers, not hunters. Humans, until recently, probably small game hunters only. Until 10,000 years ago, virtually all humans lived in small groups called bands. San peoples are best recent example for hot climate human inhabitants. Humans are only animal species to share food in a highly consistent manner. Bands are held together by kinship ties. Bands are held together by talking and telling stories. Article we read focused on a very different way to handle individual personal success than is accepted in modern cultures today. Way of life almost destroyed by encroachment of modern world. How egalitarian forager societies work to keep anyone from successfully differentiating themselves to achieve ranking and beyond.
