AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Historical Particularism, Clastres, Cultural Anthropology
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The patterns of production, distribution, and consumption that members of a society employ to ensure the satisfaction of their basic material survival needs. For exam focus on chapters 1, 2, 3 and 7. Extensive agriculture: slash-and-burn, you move from place to place. Intensive agriculture: animal force, irrigation, fertilizing, you stay in one place. Hunter-gatherers: nomadic: they do not store food. Intensive agriculture: sedentary: store and preserve food. Extensive agriculture: slash and burn horticulture, nomadic. Pastoralists: living from raising sheep and cattle, sedimentary. Are guarani indians food producers or food collectors : they hunt and gather food, they practice the slash and burn horticulture, they are both. Government representative though the guarani were backwards and less evolved because of their hunting and slash and burn horticultural practices. Following ideas o economic progress and development strategies, they implemented programs of intense agriculture in the region. Intense agriculture is not well suited for the amizonial soil.
