Anthropology 2231F/G Lecture Notes - Biocultural Diversity, Patrilineality, Food Processing
13 Jul 2012
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Biocultural diversity: biodiversity and cultural diversity seen as a single entity, lot of ecological diversity, 11 different languages with several different dialects. Complex hunter-gatherers or affluent forager: no agriculture or pottery. No maize, beans, squash, etc: had huge villages and complex kinship systems, semi-sedentism and entrenched mobility. Moved residences far less often, complex mobility. 1000-2000 people, returned to same sites every year: intensive resource management. Large amounts of processed and stored foods. Salmon, herring, halibut, clams, camas bulbs, wapato, sea mammals, deer/elk. Clam beds or gardens used to encourage clams to settle there in the calm water, thousands of clams there. Wapato: onion-like bulbs, women cut them with there feet in the water, but them into baskets. Ceremonial distinction of tasks, certain families for certain tasks, etc: household unit. 30-100 people, as many as 20 families in a single house. Also based on time of year of marriage, etc.
