What are the three dimensions of economic anthropology?
What is foraging?
Foraging: Mode of livelihood based on resources that are available in nature through gathering, fishing, or hunting. Use a sophisticated knowledge of the environment and seasonal changes. Extensive, sustainable strategy.
What is foraging division of labor?
What is foraging property relations?
What are foraging types?
What is horticulture?
Horticulture: Based on cultivating domesticated plants in gardens and using hand tools. Supplemented with trading for meat
- Extensive strategy
- Sedentary (one place). Increases reliable food energy that humans can get out of a plot of land
What is horticulture division of labor?
Division of labor: Women do processing, Children are productive (large family advantage)
What is horticulture property relations?
Property relations: More formal use rights then foraging: private property is not characteristic.
What is Swidden?
What is pastoralism?
Pastoralism: Based on domesticated animal herds and the use of their products
- Extensive strategy
What is pastoralism division of labor?
What is pastoralism property relations?
What are the types of pastoralism?
What is agriculture?
Agriculture: Growing crops on permanent plots with the use of plowing, irrigation, and fertilizer.
- Intensive not extensive
- Relies on domestic animals and artificial water sources.
What is intensive agriculture? (Division of labor, property rights)
What is industrial agriculture?
What is intensification?
What is reciprocity?
Reciprocity: A mode of distribution characterized by the exchange of goods and services of approximately equal value between parties.
What is generalized reciprocity?
What is balanced reciprocity?
What is negative reciprocity?
What is redistribution?
Redistribution: Requires centralized social organization. Central position receives economic contributions. Their responsibility to redistribute foods and goods in a way that provides for every member of the group.
What is market exchange?
Market exchange: Mode of distribution in which goods and services are bought and sold, and their value is determined by the principle of supply and demand.
- Not always money: Barter, and direct exchange of commodities between people that does not involve standard currency.
- Evolved from trade. Marketplaces can be large or small, periodic and permanent markets
What is consumption?