ANTH 001 Midterm: Anthro Readings Unit 3.docx
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Subsistence strategies: method anthropologists use to classify different societies into 5 groups based upon how they meet their material needs hunter gatherers depend on wild plants and animals for subsistence see themselves as part of the environment, not controllers of it marked by sharing and cooperation among small band lack formal political, legal, religious structure horticulturalists gardeners slash and burn agriculture also forage and feel close to natural environment larger and thus more political than hunter gatherers pastoralists nomadic lifestyle of herding domesticated animals strong group identity, fiercely independent, skilled at war and raiding agriculturalists agriculture: farming based on the intensive cultivation of permanent land holdings use plows, fertilizers, irrigation high degree of social complexity formal religion that"s organized as separate institution industrialists highly complex extensive variety of subgroups and social statuses high degree of economic specialization religious, legal, political, and economic systems as separate institutions.
