Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Anthro Lecture 7
Key terms:
• consumption
• extensive agriculture
• food collectors
• food producers
• ideology
• intensive agriculture
• labour
• market exchange
• means of production
• mechanized industrial agriculture
• mode of production
• modes of exchange
• neoclassical economic theory
• production
• reciprocity
• redistribution
• relations of production
• scarcity
• subsistence strategies
• cultural ecology
• distribution
• ecology
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, Tuesday, October 1, 2019
• economic anthropology
• economy
• Forager - small and complex
• Herder
• Horticulture
Nature, Culture and Landscape
- Anthropologists increasingly recognizing the interrelationships of the physical,
biological, economic, and cultural aspects of human existence
- Human culture is not apart from the natural world, but part of the natural world
• The natural world is shaped by our wants and needs
- Natural world as a cultural construct:
• How we understand and utilize our natural environment is culturally speci c (e.g,
Zuni wa e gardens)
- The diverse ways that human make a living are shaped by cultural and contextual
factors
- Societies will adapt their strategies according to emerging circumstances
Socioecological Data
- Collecting and analyzing data is important for anthropologists in understanding the
relationship with humans and their environment
- Examples of data collection tools (see Table 8.1):
• Geographic Information System (GIS): software system that collects, organizes,
downloads, and retrieves les for analysis and displays spatial/digital geographic
data
• Human Ecological Mapping (HEM):important for the management of natural
resources
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Anthro Lecture 7
Key terms:
• consumption
• extensive agriculture
• food collectors
• food producers
• ideology
• intensive agriculture
• labour
• market exchange
• means of production
• mechanized industrial agriculture
• mode of production
• modes of exchange
• neoclassical economic theory
• production
• reciprocity
• redistribution
• relations of production
• scarcity
• subsistence strategies
• cultural ecology
• distribution
• ecology
1
, Tuesday, October 1, 2019
• economic anthropology
• economy
• Forager - small and complex
• Herder
• Horticulture
Nature, Culture and Landscape
- Anthropologists increasingly recognizing the interrelationships of the physical,
biological, economic, and cultural aspects of human existence
- Human culture is not apart from the natural world, but part of the natural world
• The natural world is shaped by our wants and needs
- Natural world as a cultural construct:
• How we understand and utilize our natural environment is culturally speci c (e.g,
Zuni wa e gardens)
- The diverse ways that human make a living are shaped by cultural and contextual
factors
- Societies will adapt their strategies according to emerging circumstances
Socioecological Data
- Collecting and analyzing data is important for anthropologists in understanding the
relationship with humans and their environment
- Examples of data collection tools (see Table 8.1):
• Geographic Information System (GIS): software system that collects, organizes,
downloads, and retrieves les for analysis and displays spatial/digital geographic
data
• Human Ecological Mapping (HEM):important for the management of natural
resources
2
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