ANTH 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: San People, Kinship, Patrilineality
8 Feb 2017
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Bought a large ox for !kung san bushmen for christmas. They jokingly called it small and said it wouldn"t feed everyone for christmas and they would go to bed hungry. Lee thought they were being serious and thought they were being ungrateful and looked for another ox. Finally, someone told him they only joke like that so no one gets too arrogant. Principles underlying equality: the communal mode of production. : all members of a specific group jointly control resources, to which all have rights. Mode of production: social and physical organizations that is associated with producing food and other necessities in a particular society. Colonial categories: bands, tribes, and chiefdoms (given eurocentrically) (perry believes these are more gradient) Egalitarian social relations based on kinship, friendship (fictive/non-biological kinship), and descent (bilateral: matrilineal and patrilineal) Lineages: have a common ancestor (knowing ancestor) Clans: made of up different lineages (not knowing ancestor) Varied subsistence, strategies: foraging, farming, & pastoralism (herding animals)
