Test 2 Flashcards
Foragers
- Ju/hoansi or !Kung, Juaneno-Acjachema, Inuit
- Low Occupational Specialization
- Division of labor by gender & age
- Minimalism mode of consumption
Pastoralist
- Nuer
- Low O.S
- D.V of labor by gender & age
- Minimalism mode of consumption
Horticulturalist
- Trobriand Islanders, Yanomamo, Azande
- Low O.S
- D.V of labor by gender & age
- Minimalism
Agriculturalist
- Historical Europe, China, India
- Emerging O.S
- D.V of labor by gender, age & social class (farmers, merchants, tool makers..)
- Minimalism to Consumerism
- Nyinba & Tibetan society
Industrial/Post Industrialist
- United States
- High O.S
- D.V of labor by social class
- Consumerism
Yanomamo
Men = gardening Women = food processing -Cassava -Build houses, gather water, harvest sagopalm -Heavy lifting work Pioneering HORTICULTURALIST
Trobriand Islanders
Men = yams for his sister Women = grow everything else Both garden Chief can have multiple wives who get yams from their brothers and he redistributes Women make banana leaf bundles HORTICULTURALIST
Ju/hoansi (!Kung)
Women provide for majority of calories High infant mortality rate, but older people live strong, healthy, and long lives Not much diseases or health problems FORAGERS BILINEAL ENDOGAMY
Low-input cultivation
horticulture w/ only use of a few hand tools
High-input cultivation
agriculture w/ use of plow, fertilizer, irrigation
Nuer
- Pastoralist
- Cattle very important
- Bridewealth
Matrilineal descent
Traced through females (mom) side
Trobriand Islanders
Patrilineal Descent
traced through males, fathers side
Nuer
Bilineal or bilateral descent
Decent traced through BOTH male and females
!Kung (San)
Patrilocal
Live near or with husbands fam
Can be in matrilineal or patrilineal societies
India, China
Matrilocal
Live near or with wife’s fam
ONLY in matrilineal societies
Iroquis
Neolocal
Live in new place
Bilateral societies
United States
Avunculocal
Live with uncle HMoBr
Notice ONLY with Matrilineal societies
Trobriand Islanders
