ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Netsilik Inuit, Digging Stick, Fredrik Barth
24 Apr 2018
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Anth202 lesson 6: patterns of subsistence & modes of production. Sorting out the various types of food-gathering systems difference between the societies whose main ways of getting food is by collecting it or raising it, and those whose main way of getting food is by producing it. Foraging: pastoralism, horticulture, agriculture (small-scale and industrial farming) 5 main ways of making a living depending on if the population is nomadic or sedentary. Sedentarism (3) horticulture (4) agriculture (5) industry these typologies are always reductionist, The environments in which people live have necessarily have an impact on the modes of subsistence that societies can set up. What are modes of production: people have to make a living, growing crops, raising food, building houses, making nuclear power plants, goal is to obtain food or the cash to obtain food and the necessities of life. Mode of production: dominant pattern of making a living in a culture.
