ANT102H5 Chapter 5: Richard B. Lee Chapter 5 Reading Notes
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Ju lived in camps of 10-30 individuals. Composition of camps change from month to month. Camps consists of relatives, friends and in-laws who found they can live/work well together. Enables society to reproduce itself socially from generation to generation. Multifold principles of kinship don"t have a stone written code of laws, but rather a series of codes consistent enough to provide structure but open enough to be flexible. Camp: coherent internal structure fairly large (10-30 members), economically self-sufficient. Client group: black cattle posts units of one or 2 families whose men world on the cattle; sometimes larger of 30+ ppl or smaller. In 1968 70% of ju lived in camps and 30$ in client groups. Camps based on h&g and client groups were always dependent on cattle herders for milk, meat and grains. Basic traditional ju living group is a camp:
