ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lactase, Zoonosis, Neolithic Revolution
12 Sep 2018
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Food restriction: periodic denial of certain food (ie. alcohol for pregnant women) Food preference likes or dislikes of particular foods. Food factors anthropologists examine: production, preparation (ie cooking, distribution (ie. gifts, exchange, feasts, festivals, markets, consumption (culturally constructed, disposal (ie. what do we see as trash and who gets leftovers) Carrying capacity: amount of people that can be sustained by resources and environment that they live in. With now more sedentary, traveling along il rah or traveling paths that are not in mountains as they are dry if the herd is too big, they will kill the animals (ie. sleep), since they don"t raise crops. Maintain symbiotic relationships for trade, especially plant products that they do not produce themselves. Division of labour is from sex and age, with a chief being a head of everyone from noble lineage to settle disputes, appointing reps, and migration patterns: transhumance.
