Chapter 7 Part 1

Question 1

5 Patterns of Subsistence

The subsistence pattern followed influences every aspect of the group’s culture, such as community size and kinship.

Answer 1

1. Foraging (hunting and gathering)
2. Pastoralism
3. Horticulture
4. Intensive agriculture
5. Mechanized agriculture (industrialism)

Question 2

What is Adaptation

Answer 2

• How humans deal with the contingencies of daily life
• The interaction between the changes that an organism makes in its environment and the changes the environment makes in the organism

Question 3

What is Anthropogenesis

Answer 3

The process whereby ecosystems are influenced or altered by humans

Question 4

True or False: Environment does not determine culture.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

The Foraging Way of Life: Hunters & Gatherers

The original affluent (having sufficiency) society is…? (3 things)

Affluent: having a great deal of money

Answer 5

• Highly developed
• Well-balanced and ample diet
• Plenty of leisure time

Question 6

Characteristics of Foragers

4 types

Answer 6

1. Mobility and Technology - Foragers are people who do not farm or practice animal husbandry
2. Camp Organization - Small group size that move from place to place as a foraging Band (grandparents, parents, children & spouses)
3. Division of Labour - Subsistence strategies influence gender roles and relations
4. Food Sharing - division of labour by sex