ANT 220 Chapter 4: Chapter Four
31 Jan 2019
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~ chapter four: how has anthropological thinking about. Regardless, life for everyone was changed by capitalism: the fur trade in north america was an international phenomenon, and it changed how natives made their living, the fur trade had important consequences for indigenous societies in north american. It: when the fur trade ran out, however, they couldn"t return to their old way of life. This often: but they actively responded to rework their lived to minimize the negative effects of resulted in severe social dislocation. European pressures: the iroquois confederation was a society built to counter european power. Silver mined in spanish america was shipped to the spanish philippines where is was used to buy chinese textiles: more commonly, colonial enterprises got labor from neighboring regions which connected them. What explains human cultural variation: most of the societies ever studied by anthropologists were not leading unchanged ways of life that had been unaffected by others, namely europeans.
