ANTH 100A Lecture : ANTH 100 Making a living.docx
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What does this require: adaptation the inuit of northern canada, technology as tools, as knowledge culture. Modes of production: the dominant pattern of making a living in a culture. Points of comparison: means of production (technology, organization of production, productivity (energy in vs. energy out) Correlations of a,b and c- food productivity and stability, social differentiation, population size and concentration, social inequality. Caution: the usefulness and dangers of the models, expectations, multiplicity of modes of production, progressive reading on evolution into a comparative model. Large rural populations, crop surplus, supports dense urban population. Land-holding, aristocracies, true stratification based on religious and economic principals.
