ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture 22: Lecture 22 - 1AA3
24 Mar 2017
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Aspects of food examined in anthropology: production, preparation, distribution, consumption, disposal. Carrying capacity: the number of people who can be sustained by the resources and environment in which they live. Subsistence affects: settlement pattern, population, division of labour. Forager case study: ju/"hoansi: myth: foragers are constantly looking for food, population factors, small populations, strategies to curb population, social and cultural factors, little property, communal sharing, land, labour and production in foraging societies, open access. Pastoralism: population factors, size and density varies, combined subsistence strategies, eg. With foraging or small-scale farming: land and labour, ownership and control of resources/territories, division of labour. Impact of sedentism and surpluses: larger surplus = larger population, slash and burn, swidden. Thursday, march 2nd, 2017: plant/burn/rotate, division of labour. Involves on some members in food production specialization: plow agrivulture, emergence of a class of producers whose surplus benefits a ruling class.
