Module 3 Flashcards
1
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What is Economic Anthropology?
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- subfield of cultural anthropology
- examines how people use the environment to make a living
2
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3 economic systems
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1) Production: making goods, food, money
2) Consumption: using up of goods, food, money
3) Exchange: transfer of goods, food, money between people and institutions
3
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Modes of production
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- dominate patterns of making a living in a culture
- way people make a living is how they perceive the world
- affect how people behave in relationships to another
4
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Epistemology
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Study of origin, nature and limits of human knowledge
5
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2 major epistemologies produced through economic systems?
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- Dualism
- Relationalism
6
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Dualistic
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- Epistemology and large-scale producers
- Mind and body
- Culture/ nature
- Unsustainable
Modes: agriculture and industrialism
7
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Relational
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- Epistemology and small-scale producers
- cosmic society of interacting people with land
- sustainable
Modes: foraging, horticulture, pastoralism
8
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Modes of production
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- Foraging
- Horticulture
- Pastoralism
- Agriculture
- Industrialism
9
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Foraging
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- searching and collecting food in nature
- oldest economic system
- 20-50 people per unit of production
- Extensive land use
- No private property
- labor is shared between genders
10
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Horticulture
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- planting and harvesting of domesticated crops without using irrigation systems or fertilizers
- 200-250 people per unit of production
- extensive land-use
- no private property
- shared labor where men clear land and hunt and women and children plant, weed, harvest and women distribute food
11
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Pastoralism
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- domestication of animal herds
- extensive land use
- 200-250 people per unit of production
- nuer, azandi, maasai, basseri
12
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4 types of Agriculture
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- Family Farming
- Plantations
- Industrial
13
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Family Farming
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- aka Agrarian farming
- crops grown for consumption by family
- labor based on class, gender, age
- work longer hours
- heritable land rights
14
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Plantations
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- large-scale production for sale by wealthy landowners
- land ownership by ruling families and use mono-cropping
15
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Industrial Agriculture
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- capital intensive for sale in international market
- technology for harnessing energy rather than labor
- non-sustainable mode of production
