ANTH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pastoralism, Intensive Farming, List Of Domesticated Animals
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Bd seeks to explain why people do and think what they do by considering biological factors such as peoples genes and hormones, believe in passing down good genes. Cc maintains that human behavior and ideas are best explained as products as culturally shaped learning, some connect biology and culture in their work. Ia focuses on understanding culture by studying what people think about their explanations of their lives and the symbols that are important to them. Cm looks at the material aspects, the barrel model (environment, infrastructure, social structure, super structure) This debate concerns the question of how much individual will (agency) effects the way people behave and think compared with the power of forces or structures that are beyond individual control, poverty is an example. Hunters and gatherers and foragers: private property (owning o something that could be sold) did not exist, but use rights (a group or person has socially recognized priority over something) did.
