Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pastoralism, Cassava
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Foraging continued congregation and dispersal (drought season congregate around water supply inuits congregate around seals" breathing holes) bands low population densities, relatively small social groups (less than 50); i) ii) flexible, fluctuate in size, people have several ways to attach themselves to other iii) sharing is extremely important to foraging cultures iv) surplus, therefore everyone participates in everything (no specializing) egalitarian. (not characterized by social inequality) foraging doesn"t allow for generations of social groups; foragers don"t work nearly as hard as we do (20 hour work week to collect enough food) Intensive use of land (occasionally rotate or let fallow, but not for long) use animal energy and tools ploughing, brings nutrients up from the soil manure more time dedicated to maintaining the land/fertility of soil more control over their environment than horticulturalists lots of people fed who don"t need to participate in food growing much more specialization social inequality like ancient egypt.