ANTH 203 Study Guide - Final Guide: Lewis H. Morgan, Sociocultural Evolution, Environmental Anthropology
17 Jan 2016
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Foraging -> pastoralism -> horticulture -> intensive agriculture -> industrialism. Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. Pastoralism is the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock. It is animal husbandry: the care, tending and use of animals such as camels, goats, cattle, yaks, llamas, and sheep. Technological development does not mean progress of culture. Lewis henry morgan; savagery -> barbarism -> civilization. Neo evolutionism: revival of cultural evolutionism. (vs. boas" cultural particularism) Leslie white: the advance of culture is the amount of energy harnessed per capita and the efficiency or economy of the means of controlling energy. Technology = cultural development [his idea= unilinear cultural evolution] Julian steward: cultural ecology= environmental anthropology, pastoralist groups. Phases of economic activity; production (raw->sth useful), distribution (allocation of goods) and consumption (using up the goods for survival).
