ANTH 1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Household Division, Land Tenure, Pastoralism
Document Summary
Economic anthro: studies economies from a comparative approach. Similar economic causes produce similar cultural effects. Modes of production- way of organizing production. Set of social relations through which labor is deployed to extract energy from nature by means of tools, skills, organization, knowledge. Foraging economy: hunting, gathering, fishing, exploring natural resources. Division of labor by sex and age. Egalitarian social relations, few differences in wealth and power. Economic unit of production is entire group. Cooperation is the theme, conflict is kept to a minimum. Pastoral strategies: tech devoted to gaining livelihood from care of large herds of domestic animals. Concept of private ownership, mainly in animals. Division of labor- men are herders, higher social status. Horticulture: in order to shift, you need land (not a private commodity) Land tenure is by extended kin groups. Division of labor- women tend fields while men hunt. Tech- plows, domesticated animals, irrigation, systems, terracing, fertilizers.
