ANT 176 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Nomadic Pastoralism, Pastoralism, Economic System
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The number of people inhabiting a given area of land. Yield per person per unit of land. Yield per person per hour of labor invested. A form of pastoralism in which the whole social group (men, women, children) and their animals move in search of pasture. A society that reckons descent through the male line. A form of cultivation in which a field is cleared by felling the trees and burning the brush. Rural cultivators who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger complex state societies. The replacement of human and animal energy by machines in the process of production. The integration of resources, labor, and capital into a global network. The norms governing production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services within a society. The study of the ways in which the choices people make combine to determine how their society uses its scarce resources to produce and distribute goods and services.
