ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Shifting Cultivation, List Of Domesticated Animals, Pastoralism
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On growing domesticated crops in gardens using simple hand tools: shifting cultivation. More labour intensive than foragers energy required to prep and food. Surplus of food supply allows for trade relationships = wealth. Clearing forest cleared (partially), set on fire = growth (rich fertilizer: slash and burn cultivation. Planting sticks loosen soil, plant seeds (scattering), plant plants by hand. Weeding little weeding, ash cover (hard to grow) Harvesting substantial labour, cut or dig crops (residential area) Fallowing left unused for specific number of years = regain fertility. Men clear garden area (field labour) prestige foods. Women (closer to home) staple foods: do not contribute to producing food = low status (may be high or not if contribute) Men do cleaning and cultivating and children more productive labour. Use right more defined and formalized than foragers: cleaning and cultivating land = family"s claim on land.
