ANTH 1000 Chapter 5: Chapter 5

• School: UConn
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1000
• Professor: Sarah Willen

Document Summary

Making a living: food production- human control over the reproduction of plants and animals, contrasts with the foraging economies that proceeded it. Adaptive strategies: adaptive strategy- society"s main system of economic production, typology includes foraging, horticulture, agriculture, pastoralism, and industrialism, foraging. All humans used to be foragers, however environmental differences did create substantial contrasts among world"s foragers. People relying on nature to make their living, don"t grow crops or breed animals. All contemporary foragers live in nation states and are influenced by national policies. People who are hunter-gatherers often live in band organized societies, basic social unit is the band- group of people smaller than a hundred people all related by kinship or marriage. Adaptive strategies based on food production: three adaptive strategies based on food production in nonindustrial societies are horticulture, agriculture, and pastoralism. Horticulture and agriculture, plant cultivation is the mainstay of the economy. Rely on simple tools such as hoes and digging sticks.