Anthropology 1025F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Kalahari Desert, Lewis H. Morgan, Water Frame
27 Oct 2015
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What do we talk about when we talk about progress? settlements: today"s world is radically divided into the wealthy and the poor, sedentary: a mode of livelihood characterized by permanent or semi permanent, progress: the idea that human history is the story of a steady advance from a life dependent on the whims of nature to a life of control and domination over natural forces. 10,000 years ago, humans lived in small, nomadic bands of 30 to 100 people lived by gathering plants and hunting: bands: a term used by anthropologists to refer to egalitarian units of social organization found mostly among foragers, that usually consist of fewer than100 people, moved around constantly for food group was small and mobile, little occupational specialization, no formal leader, kinship served as the main organizing principle of these societies, relations among people likely were of an egalitarian nature.
