Anthropology 1025F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Slash-And-Burn, Hunter-Gatherer, Sociocultural Anthropology
12 Jul 2019
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Irrigation agriculture a form of cultivation in which water is used to deliver nutrients to growing plants: replaced slash-and-burn technique, leaders organized labour for constructing roads, fortifications (great wall of. Evolutionary explanations for culture change: sedentary agriculture was an easier, safer, and more productive way to get food. Desert in 1950s: lived around water holes and would wander up to 10km for plants and food, groups had 30-40 people in rainy season when water holes were full and 100- John h. bodley 1985 compared the production of sweet potatoes in new guinea with potato production in the us: sweet potatoes are cultivated using slash-and-burn. Inequality between rich and poor: the textile industry in england in the last half of the 18th century and first half of the. 19th: when europeans encountered indigenous cultures, they questioned whether they were human, which made it easy to justify colonial atrocities such as slavery, colonialism the acquisition of new territories throughout the world by.
