AN N EA 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Family, Bride Price, Female Genital Mutilation
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Wk2 lec prehistory part i: prehistory: pre-modern, pre-historical. No cities/villages: 2 major types of prehistory. Horticulturalist: pre-agriculturalist -- take seeds from wild plant & plant them; might not settled in villages; pre-herders -- might breed animals. Hunter-gatherer communities: follow food sources, carrying necessities. Con: no stored food supply, have to go where food is. Men: can create cross-kin connection; cohesion among group of men. Person makes the kill owns the kill -> social power. Friedl: grouped hunter-gatherer along gradient in terms of economic source of food. The greater the male monopoly on the distribution of scarce items, the stronger their control of women seems to be . To be an effective source of power, money must be exchanged in ways that require returns & create obligations, in other words it must be invested . Owner of kill distribute food to others -> gift debt & asymmetricity of giving. And protein is scarcer than veggie; more valuable; harder to get (dangerous)
