chapter 6 (Food )

Question 1

subsitstence strategy

Answer 1

the pattern for obtaining ones food ( how humans put food on the table)

Question 2

food foragers

Answer 2

hunters and gatherers. 98% of human existence was spent as this

100 people

highly nomadic ; move around a lot. Every 3-6 months

Question 3

egalitarian

Answer 3

we are all peers no hierarchy

this is what food foragers believe in

Question 4

carrying compacity

Answer 4

maximum amount of people a particular food getting technique can support

cannot go over 100 people for hunter and gatheres

Question 5

reciprocity

Answer 5

give and take

Question 6

generalized reciprocity

Answer 6

referes to practice of giving to someone else without explicit expectation of getting something in return

ex : not accepting a tip for a flat tire

me always kill the share or gain with the group
-whoever kills with the arrow- has to do the first cut

Question 7

trobland islanders

Answer 7

men grow yams as form of currency

grow yams for sisters family and for daughters family

the best is to have many woman because they’re paid in yams

Question 8

blaances reciprocity

Answer 8

this is an exchange that both sides view as even or fair

ex: buying rounds at a bar

Question 9

food foragers

Answer 9

gender equailty: men hunters woman nuts and berries

just as active in involved with raising children

woman space children out 3-5 years because of the carrying compactity (6-8 mile walk a day couldn’t do this with 2 kids)

Question 10

neolithic revolution

Answer 10

10-1200 years of domestication of crops and animals. Become farmers pasoralist/herders

increased carrying compact

Question 11

sedentory

Answer 11

living in one place. basic horticulture can sustain thousands and now they can stay in one places

this was the BEG OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Question 12

negative reciprocity

Answer 12

refers to when one or both parties attempt to get the better deal at the other persons expense . Taking advantage of one another.

-ex: used cars salesman

Question 13

swidding farming

Answer 13

slash and burn. Work for plot for 7 years and then rotate the plot (clear the land by burning the plot) very sustainable

carrying campacity increases to 10,000 people

Question 14

intensive agriculture

Answer 14

irrigation farming ; reroute water from a fresh water source ..carrying capacity goes up to millions

this is when cities were created

Question 15

terrace farming

Answer 15

china and asisa form of intensive agriculture

Question 16

head man

Answer 16

food foragers ; a leader without real authority who is appointed by his band bc he embodies the qualities they value

can’t boss anyone around, he leads by example

ex: sports team captain

Question 17

big man

Answer 17

a charismatic leader known for his abilities to redistribute recourses. tribal societies

most generous; not always biggest physically

Question 18

chief

Answer 18

is the beg of heirarchy or stratisfication

this is something that is passed down from children

make yourself smaller in presence of chief, should not e taller, known to have magical powers

Question 19

guanxi

Answer 19

favor networks in china ; long term relationship. treat this person like family

ex: faimyly discount i

Question 20

anthropology says progress is

Answer 20

complicated

Question 21

industrilization issues

Answer 21

become more sedentary (sitting down) change in diet high in fat, sugar, and salt

diseases of progress

Question 22

conspicuous consumption

Answer 22

term developed by economist that refers to display of wealth to signify status

ex: mansion, designer items

Question 23

we suffer because

Answer 23

the break that we give to the rich..the rich aren’t paying taxes.

Question 24

taxes

Answer 24

represent the redistribution of rescources

Question 25

informal economies

Answer 25

the black market : drug dealing, babysitting , prostituion

off the books

Question 26

prestige economy

Answer 26

refers to the practice of producing a surplus of goods for the purpose of giving away , the more you give the more prestige you earn

ex: the big man

Question 27

leveling mechanism

Answer 27

cultural obligation to vie away wealth at culturally prescribed occasions

ex: wedding , funerals, other feasts

Question 28

bander

Answer 28

trading goods for services

ex: doctor in countryside, he gets paid in chickens and eggs for seeing patient

Question 29

trobiant islands

Answer 29

banana bundle woman form of currency

yams form wealth

chief has more wives because this means more wealthy and economic strength - feed his villiage

men give yams to sisters family

Question 30

sagaii( tribunate island)

Answer 30

funueral ritual , give bundles to relatives at saga..the more you give the more straight you give..it is powerful to give away your wealth- shows strength in the face of death

level mechanism