Chapter 10, 11, 14 Flashcards
Different modes of production
pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture
Different modes of exchange
reciprocity, redistribution, and market exchange
Commodity exchange
goods subject to market exchange
Gift exchanges/importance of gift exchange
develop/maintain a social relationship
Ways of getting food in food foraging
farming and animal domestication, division of labor, food sharing
5 modes of subsistence
food foraging, pastoralism, horticulture, agriculture, industrialism
Activities associated with Food Foraging
farming, animal domestication, hunting, food sharing, small groups, farming, and domestication of animals
activities associated with pastoralism
domestication/herding of animals, nomadic/transhumant lifestyle, a larger range of land
Ways subsistence systems are linked to expectations about land tenure + access to resources
people in agriculture get their land passed down to them from generations before. they don’t own the land but have the right to use land.
social/economic characteristics associated w/ agricultre
dependent on peasantry, supplies to the urban areas, inequalities, territorial, land tenure systems.
benefits/drawbacks of agricultural subsistence systems
labor-intensive, risky, and you don’t own the land you work on.
land tenure
you don’t own the land, it’s passed down through generation but no real ownership
activities associated horticulture
growth and regrowth of forests (common in tropical areas), splash and burn techniques (rotations), cultivate in small plots
activities associated agriculture
land permanently cultivated, plow animals, selective livestock, labor-intensive
activities associated with industrialism
intensively mechanized farming, factory farms, and plantations,
ways of getting food in horticulture
commodity chains, cultivating crops, domesticating animals
ways of getting food in agriculture
planting/cultivating crops, domesticating animals
ways of getting food in industrialism
ways of getting food in pastoralism
relationship between horticulturalists get their food and settlement patterns
relationship between agriculturalists get their food and settlement patterns
relationship between pastoralists get their food and settlement pattern
relationship between industrialists get their food and settlement patterns
relationship between food foragers getting their food and settlement patterns
what’s social ecology
climate change’s effect on the lives of people who depend on land + animals
land tenures effect on sustainability
global capitalism’s effect on subsistence strategies
climate change’s effect on subsistence
who are the Dzud
the Dzud and freezing conditions
Urbanization + housing in Mongolia
economic changed in Mongolia
Mining + effects on environment in Saami
Herding in Saami
feezing/melting cycles in Saami
government priorities in Saami
Disease
Illness
Sickness
health + healing
holistic medicine
holistic in anthropological perspective
health care systems
case study of Chinese medicine
case study of Hmong refugees
case study of American health care system
Childbirth in the U.S.