APG 203 Study Guide - Final Guide: Imagined Community, Shifting Cultivation, Potlatch
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Imagined communities : benedict anderson, nations are imagined, not real. Connection to entire nation not possible, yet feeling of connection in strong (i. e a soldier would die for his/her nation ) Language and print played crucial role in developing national consciousness: assimilation, when a minority adopts the patterns and norms of a host culture. Transplanting: young men drive cattle to mix earth and water. Older men break up clumps of earth the cattle missed. At harvest time: young men cut rice, young women carry it to clearing above field, older women stack it, oldest men and women compact it. Then young men beat stalks to remove rice, older men attack stalks to ensure all rice has fallen off: means (or factors) of production, major reproductive resources: land, labor, technology, capital. Land: the importance of land varies according to method of production. Land is less important to a foraging economy than it is to a cultivating economy.
