ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Basseri, Pastoralism, Surplus Product
1 Apr 2013
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Influences on food production (subsistence) and diet (geography) Small populations (they are mobile, larger groups would impede their movement) The object does not matter, but the value of the relationship. Most display gender equality, but related to source of food: example: inuit. Roles of males are primarily hunting large animals (seal, walrus, polar bear) Diet based mainly on mean and fish. There is a slight division in gender roles emphasis on male labour (hunting/fishing = dangerous) Subsistence raising and caring for large herds of domesticated animals. Combined subsistence strategies: e. g. with foraging or small-scale farming. Land and labour: ownership and control of resources/territories, division of labour based on gender. Summer months they go into the highlands they move with their animals. Basseri tents travelling on a specific routes, they do not want to run into another tribe. Meat is a key part of their diet, they don"t kill their animals for meat and they do not raise any crops.
