ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Book Of Leviticus, Cultural Ecology, Marshall Sahlins
10 Nov 2016
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A dialectic between the meaningful and the material. The capitalist mode of production and its consequences. Film: people of a feather, sanikiluaq (belcher islands) Economic anthropology is the part of the discipline that debates issues of human nature that relate directly to the decision of daily life and making a living (wilk, 1996: xv). Three economic models based on different assumptions of human nature: self-interested model, social model, moral model. Economy: from an institutional perspective, the material-means provisioning process in a cultural system. Institutions: stable and enduring cultural practices that organize social life. Subsistence strategies are the patterns of production, distribution, and consumption that members of a society use to meet their basic material and survival needs. Distinction between food collectors and food producers. Food collectors: those who gather, fish, or hunt for food. Food producers: those who depend on domesticated plants and/or animals for food.
