ANTH 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Ecological Collapse, Japanese Cuisine, Living Wage
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Economy: a cultural adaptation to the environment that enables a group of humans to use the available resources to satisfy their needs and to thrive. Production, distribution, and consumption: yehudi cohen (1974): referred to economy as set of adaptive strategies humans use to provide food, water, and shelter through production, distribution, and consumption. Suggested five primary adaptive strategies that have been developed. From foraging to industrial agriculture: a brief survey of food production: food foraging. Food foragers: humans who subsist by hunting, fishing, and gathering plants to eat. Before domestication of plants and animals, mobility was necessary for food. Note: food foraging cultures do not reveal the gender stereotypes often associated with them: pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture. Food production can be traced back to the fertile crescent (tigris and euphrates river- modern-day iraq) Pastoralism: a strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals. Horticulture: cultivation of plants for subsistence through non- intensive use of land and labor.
