ANTHROP 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Stratification, Sedentism, Surplus Product
3 May 2017
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Gender & subsistence: patterns exist, men usually hunt, herd, conduct warfare, conduct trade, women usually care for children, make clothes, clean, gather, care for the sick and elderly. Division of labour: women"s roles often complementary, women"s roles affected by reproductive role (childbirth, nursing, infant care, childcare, roles can change with economic, and political, social factors. Foragers: hunting and gathering, mobile - follow the food, economy based on simple reciprocity. Food sources include: game hunting, fishing, collecting. Increased male dominance for doing the dangerous work to gain the food. Pastoralism: more labour to divide, more gendered division of labour, women responsible for care of calves, sheep, and goats, milking cows, and distributing and. Largely egalitarian trading: men go out and herd cattle, feed them, protect them, women"s roles are complementary. Gender in pastoral and horticultural societies: related to control of the distribution of produce and goods. In egalitarian societies, men and women have comparable economic roles.
