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Subsistence Strategies

Subsistence Strategies. Part of people’s economic system 4 types: Foraging Pastoralism Horticulture Intensive Agriculture.

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Subsistence Strategies

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  1. Subsistence Strategies • Part of people’s economic system • 4 types: • Foraging • Pastoralism • Horticulture • Intensive Agriculture This lecture discusses how people get their food. Of all the cultural traits, this is the most important as it conditions virtually all other social institutions.

  2. Subsistence Strategies • Foraging • hunt, fish, gather • make tools • production = shared, personal use • egalitarian • small communities • highly mobile • high infant mortality • overlapping gender roles • high degree of sustainability • e.g., !Kung This lecture discusses how people get their food. Of all the cultural traits, this is the most important as it conditions virtually all other social institutions.

  3. Subsistence Strategies • Pastoralism • domestic animals and their by-products • high mobility • gender division of labor • property • semi-permanent camps • high degree of sustainability • e.g., Ariaal This lecture discusses how people get their food. Of all the cultural traits, this is the most important as it conditions virtually all other social institutions.

  4. Graphics Cited • Pastoralist: http://www.newint.org/issue378/pics/life-3.jpg • Camels: http://www.thisfabtrek.com/journey/africa/mauritania/20061106-nouakchott/camels-waterhole-4.jpg • Netsilik: http://www.dreamspeakers.org/2005/images/films/through_these_eyes.jpg • Inupiat: http://images.myareaguide.com/aps/op/inup.jpg • Inupiat sled: http://assets.espn.go.com/i/eticket/20061009/photos/eticket_u_histfam_310.jpg • Bushmen: http://www.gonomad.com/lodgings/0611/namgallery-images/bushman-familyb.jpg • Bushmen hunters: http://www.gudigwa.com/images/zoom/gudigwa-bushmen-hunting.jpg • Mbuti: http://kim.uing.net/files/post_file_3980.jpg • Andaman: http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter13/pla13-5.jpg • Lakota: http://www.old-picture.com/old-west/pictures/Lakota-Sioux.jpg • Bororo: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22483/22483-h/images/ill1-232a.jpg • Blackfoot: http://www.topfoto.co.uk/gallery/AlternativeHousing/images/prevs/photri1018798.jpg • Ariaal Warrior: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/a/ariaal-warrior-525467-sw.jpg • Chukchee: http://polarhusky.com/logistics/chukotka/people/chukchi.attachment/logisticschukotkapeoplechukchi020/LogisticsChukotkaPeopleChukchi020.jpg • Kurds: http://i.infoplease.com/images/home/kurds-sheep.jpg • Pastoralists and camels: http://mediaglobal.org/admin/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/pastoralists.camels.jpg • Pastoralists: http://www.mursi.org/news-items/meeting-of-pastoralists-in-south-omo-zone-planned-for-8-12-november/image_mini • Masaai: http://www.kitumusote.org/sites/kitumusote.org/files/images/history%20of%20maasai%20page%201.img_assist_custom.JPG • Saami: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Saami_Family_1900.jpg/800px-Saami_Family_1900.jpg • Akan: http://crawfurd.dk/illu/weekly/akanking.jpg • Banyoro: http://www.ugpulse.com/images/articles/daily/20060921_100_8.jpg • Garifuna: http://www.allseasonsbelize.com/images/allgemein/garifuna.jpg • Shipibo: http://www.shamanic.net/pictures/Peru2007/carlos.jpg • Tikopia: http://www.tallshipstales.de/90s/imgs/EricMatson/boys-of-tikopia.jpg • Tzeltal: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1092/1082248917_0e9805da6e.jpg • Yanomami: http://www.giemmegi.org/images/festa-yanomami-6.jpg • Amhara: http://en.kindernothilfe.org/en/Rubrik/Countries/Africa/Ethiopia/_Better+Future+for+children__Project.html • Bengali: http://picasaweb.google.com/dleclercq/TripMiddleEastAndTheBalkans/photo#5147508446831035218 • Thai: http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/806/50081622.JPG • Monguor: http://www.joshuaproject.net/profiles/photos/p114229.jpg • Santhal: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/20/71832446_4854285fe0_m.jpg • Lepcha: http://www.joshuaproject.net/profiles/photos/p105723.jpg • Shluh: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/92620708_6928efedf0.jpg • Sinhalese: http://www.joshuaproject.net/profiles/photos/p109305.jpg • Ifugao: http://www.madnomad.com/gregg/img/cordill_01.jpg • Dogon: http://saharanvibe.blogspot.com/2007/06/dogon-people-of-bandiangara.html This lecture discusses how people get their food. Of all the cultural traits, this is the most important as it conditions virtually all other social institutions.

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