AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mbuti People, Original Affluent Society, Sun Dance
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Adaptation: refers to interaction between changes an organism makes in its environment and changes. Social adaptation is crucial facet of all human cultures, as social structures and political. Structures must be functionally suited to how social formation has adapted to its enviro. Humans adapt through the medium of culture as they develop ways of doing things compatible with resources available in their enviro, and according to the enviro"s limitation. Patterns of subsistence: various strategy adaptations for survival. B/c humans possess culture and language, and ability to symbolize. Their adaptation and their survival best studied on several levels: Ecological adaptation: involving the provision of food and shelf and maintain health. Social adaptation: concerns sociability between individuals and groups, maintenance of order, and reproduction, both biological and social, involving not only sexuality but relation of effective ties between offspring and parents. Psychological adaptation: relates to how humans through language and symbolic action create and maintain meaning and coherence in their lives.
