Subsistenc e Strategies This lecture discusses how people get their food. Of all the cultural traits, this is the most important as it conditions virtually all other social institutions. Horticulture cultivation of domestic crops using hand tools limited surplus production gender-related tasks property = use rights extensive land use shifting fields polycropping good sustainability e.g., Yanomami
Subsistenc e Strategies This lecture discusses how people get their food. Of all the cultural traits, this is the most important as it conditions virtually all other social institutions. Intensive Agriculture two levels peasant draft animals large families polycropping industrial mass production monocropping high capital investment machinery urbanization nuclear family
Subsistenc e Strategies This lecture discusses how people get their food. Of all the cultural traits, this is the most important as it conditions virtually all other social institutions. Intensive Agriculture commonalities manipulation of environment fertilizers and irrigation occupational specialization public/private dichotomy private ownership permanent residence extensive/intensive land use not sustainable
Graphics Cited This lecture discusses how people get their food. Of all the cultural traits, this is the most important as it conditions virtually all other social institutions. Pastoralist: Camels: Netsilik: Inupiat: Inupiat sled: Bushmen: Bushmen hunters: Mbuti: Andaman: Lakota: Bororo: Blackfoot: Ariaal Warrior: warrior sw.jpg warrior sw.jpg Chukchee: ChukotkaPeopleChukchi020.jpg ChukotkaPeopleChukchi020.jpg Kurds: Pastoralists and camels: Pastoralists: november/image_minihttp:// november/image_mini Masaai: ustom.JPG ustom.JPG Saami: Saami_Family_1900.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Saami_Family_1900.jpg/800px- Saami_Family_1900.jpg Akan: Banyoro: Garifuna: Shipibo: Tikopia: Tzeltal: Yanomami: Amhara: Bengali: Thai: Monguor: Santhal: Lepcha: Shluh: Sinhalese: Ifugao: Dogon: