SOCI 3407W Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Energy Harvesting, Gender Inequality, Takers
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This class began with a yoga exercise, in mountain pose hands raised to the sky: a power stance, connect with the earth. Then, we continued with talking about the readings from this week, and tried to make connections between the hunter gatherer lifestyle, and farming, as well as the effects of that transition. Energy: we get our energy from food, when hunting, success ratio is low. Importance of women why do they stay home: women are biologically valuable . If all but one woman survives, and the woman population is sustained, a generation is lost only women can bear children. If all but one man survives, and the woman population is sustained, the population will be fine: women staying at home, instead of doing dangerous hunting, is a security for the future of the tribe. !kung people: they were hunter-gatherers, turned into farmers, egalitarian, and less aggressive, virtually free of diseases.
