ANTB64H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Proletarianization, Coriander, Bottled Water
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consider the distinctivve role of food played in contrasndiction to all other commodoties in. anthropological studies of food and eating are long standing. small third world societies at the time early studies were being preformed, the foods coming from outside of the society, were of trivial significance in local diets. the boundaries between societies are always being crossed, but it is still possible to treat production, consumption and distribution as a single systematic web. as food was distributed, political authority expectably accompanied it. increased local productivity don"t lead inexorably to greater production, wider markets, longer hours of work, higher pay, larger houses or persisting numbers of unemployed and homeless people. societies didn"t respond to internally to opportunities widened opportunities in ways we find familiar. studies showed that people took great pride in their food and work and used food ceremonially.
