APG 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Profit Motive, Economic Anthropology, Transhumance
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Cohens adaptive strategies: foraging, horticulture, agriculture, pastroialism. Horticulturalists cultivate a plot for one or two years and then abandon it. Agriculturalists farm the same plot of land continuously and use intensive labor. They use one or more of the following- irrigation, terracing, and domesticated animals as means of production: means of production, land, labor, technology, capital. Pastorial nomadism- an entire group (women, men, children) move with their animals throughout the year. Transhumance- part of a group moves with the herd, but most people stay in the village. Economic anthropology- the cross cultural study of systems of production, distribution, and consumption. In non industrial societies, kin based mode of production prevails: one acquires rights to resources and labor through membership in social groups, not impersonally through purchase and sale. Economics- the science of allocating scarce means to alternative ends. The characteristic mode of exchange among foragers and horticulturalists.
