CMN 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Endogamy, Original Affluent Society, Sarakatsani
6 Nov 2013
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Environment: surrounding conditions and circumstances that influence the life of a people: hunter-gathers: i. e. south africa. Collect food from their immediate environment and they pick or catch only as much as they could eat at one time to avoid problems of storage or transport. Nomadic: people who move around to make a living rather than settling in one place. Division of labour is made along the lines of age and gender. The healthy and capable collect for the very young and the very old. Marshall sahlins described hunter-gathers as the original affluent society". Hunters and gatherers are forced to have an objectively low standard of living. However, they are satisfied with what they have and they do not consider themselves as poor. If people want no more than their food, and that is available, then they have all they desire. They have not been corrupted by the addictive and competitive traps of property ownership and capitalism: pastoralists: i. e. sarakatsani.
