ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kalahari Desert, Marshall Sahlins, Original Affluent Society
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Social organization: how do people organize themselves to actually do the list above. We reproduce ourselves biologically, but socially as well. The economy allows us to reproduce through time. Domestication of animals to give us food. Hunting is more risky and more energy used. Gathering: women are gathering more than hunting. Women supply a lot of food for the family. Not humans looking at a pristine world. The people already know where the resources are. Hunters have incredible sense of the world around them. They need know how to move across different groups (small). If not, there is not much opportunity to marry. Foragers can only exist in a world that"s run by big, industrialized societies. Lives in the desert of south africa. In the summer, they will go to the water sources. They know where the water is underground or plants that have enough water. Revisionist view: a response to current environmental and social conditions.
