AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Consumerism, Social Darwinism, Mercantilism
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Lecture 7 - the meaning of progress and development. ** friday"s class will be in the turret ** Illegal logging and forest conservation: consumer demands and effects on forest dwellers, conflicting ideologies (corporate interests vs. conservation) and realities, we are going underwater (susan crate) Two ways to achieve affluence (marshall sahlins: to have few needs that could be easily satisfied, e. g. foragers. Seen as the first affluent societies: to produce much (or as much as we want, e. g. industrial societies. The hadza: hunter-gatherers in tanzania, healthy diet, diet: 80% plants, gathered by women, the more work that is done supports subsistence, 2 hours work/day. The ju"hoanis: hunter-gatherers, healthy diet: 60-80% plants. Herders (nuer: pastoral people, mobile, male dominated, had formal leaders, organized on tribes,. (kinship based) Horticulture (food cultivators: extensive agriculture, more land, slash-and burn, or swidden farming, bolivian forests and chimanese indians, conversationalists vs timber companies.
