ANTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ender Wiggin, Scurvy, Original Affluent Society
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How do different subsistence modes correlate with social and cultural forms: foraging, pastoralism, horticulture, agriculture. Reflecting on and with hunter-gatherers on the human-food connection. Working assumptions in the comparative study of modes of subsistence. Myths and realities about contemporary foraging peoples. Ontological questions about food, the body and human survival. Terminologies: hunter-gatherer vs foragers (preferred term in anthropology) **the hadza are one of the few contemporary african societies that live primarily by foraging. Many of them do not exist anymore, as they were wiped out. Foragers are often described as a living a simple way of life. Because they live off the land, foragers live in small population groups with a limited material culture that can be easily trandsported as they search for food. Their societies lack the complex social, political and technical elements found. Deadly misconceptions: the franklin disaster of 1845-47: franklin expedition of 1845. Find short route between europe and asia.
