ANT101H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Karl August Wittfogel, Charismatic Authority, Carl O. Sauer
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Irrigation systems: trade networks, few people gained power over trade, established social stratification, environmental & social circumscription. Rob carneiro: social stratification due to competition for scarce resources. Monopoly of high shamanism: action marcus & flannery, charismatic leaders (religious cults) Stress models (environmental determinism: desiccation or oasis theory. Gordon childe: environmental stress led to beginning of food production, rapid changes in climate at end of pleistoscene, few permanent water sources. , robert braidwood nuclear zone theory: domestication came about as people became familiar with local plant and animal resources culture was ready/mature for it , sedentism theory. Carl sauer: population staying in one spot, large food resource, as population grew, needed more food sources relied on fishing, social theory. Bender & hayden: economic competition that lead to feasting, accumulate large amounts of food, transformation of nature into culture. Hodder: domestication was product of effects of environmental changes and exercise of human agency nature into culture .
