ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Crop Rotation, Zoonosis, Noble Savage
4 Jul 2017
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Aspects of food examined in anthropology: production, preparation (eg cooking, distribution. Gifts, exchange, feasts, festivals, markets: distribution. What is considered trash; who get leftovers. Optimists: logic-of-growth model, technology, modernity, and economic growth will solve our problems. Contribution of anthropology: understanding relationship between humans and their environment, past and present. Environmental trends: myth of the ecological noble savage , we have been modifying/damaging the environment for a long time (small scale, modern humans - happening on a larger scale. The green revolution : began after wwii (ended 1945, new high yield crop varieties, fertilizers, pesticides, & mechanized equipment. The mechanized agriculture and the green revolution": crop rotation, natural & chemical fertilizers, commercial seed production, winter feeding, improved transportation. Green revolution - cons: technology not spread evenly, many subsistence farmers can"t afford seeds, fertilizers, equipment, africa bene ted least, failed to address unequal access to food and food-producing resources.
