ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Thorstein Veblen, Pastoralism, Social Fund
8 Nov 2012
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Yehudi cohen coined the term, adaptive strategy to describe a society"s system of economic production. He developed a typology of societies based on correlations between their economies and their social features. The foraging way of life survived into modern times in certain forests, deserts, islands, and cold areas. All modern foragers live in nation-states and depend to some extent on government assistance. They are in contact with food producing neighbours as well as with missionaries and other outsiders. Some of the best-known foragers are the aborigines of australia. They lived on their island continent for more than 60,000 years without developing food production. Costal foragers lived near the southern tip of south america, in. The band- small group of fewer than a hundred people, all related by kinship and marriage. People could join a band to which they had kin or marital status links. Men typically hunt and fish while women gather and collect: horitculture.
