Making a Living
MAKING A LIVING
Anthropology: Chapter 16
Cultural Anthropology: Chapter 8
Physical Anthropology and Archaeology: Not Present
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
1. Know what an adaptive strategy is. In addition you should know how Cohen uses adaptive strategies to classify different societies.
2. Understand what foraging entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly found in foraging societies.
3. Understand what horticulture entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly found in horticultural societies.
4. Know what agriculture entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly found in agricultural societies. In particular, you must be familiar with the features of agriculture that distinguish it from horticulture.
5. Know what pastoralism entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly found in pastoral societies.
6. Distinguish between modes and means of production.
7. Understand how industrialism leads to the alienation of the producer and the product.
8. You need to know how economic anthropologists study the ways in which groups manage their resources. Specifically, you need to know how economic anthropologists use maximizing and economizing models to study the different uses that various societies have for scarce resources.
9. You should know the different forms of distribution and exchange. In particular, you should be able to distinguish between the market principle, redistribution, and the various forms of reciprocity.
10. You need to be familiar with the potlatch. Specifically, you need to know what it is, where it is found, how it has changed through time, and how it functions at both the local and regional levels.
CHAPTER OUTLINE
I. Adaptive Strategies
A. Yehudi Cohen used the term adaptive strategy to describe a group’s system of economic production.
B. Cohen has developed a typology of cultures using this distinction, referring to a relationship
Anthropology: Chapter 16
Cultural Anthropology: Chapter 8
Physical Anthropology and Archaeology: Not Present
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
1. Know what an adaptive strategy is. In addition you should know how Cohen uses adaptive strategies to classify different societies.
2. Understand what foraging entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly found in foraging societies.
3. Understand what horticulture entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly found in horticultural societies.
4. Know what agriculture entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly found in agricultural societies. In particular, you must be familiar with the features of agriculture that distinguish it from horticulture.
5. Know what pastoralism entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly found in pastoral societies.
6. Distinguish between modes and means of production.
7. Understand how industrialism leads to the alienation of the producer and the product.
8. You need to know how economic anthropologists study the ways in which groups manage their resources. Specifically, you need to know how economic anthropologists use maximizing and economizing models to study the different uses that various societies have for scarce resources.
9. You should know the different forms of distribution and exchange. In particular, you should be able to distinguish between the market principle, redistribution, and the various forms of reciprocity.
10. You need to be familiar with the potlatch. Specifically, you need to know what it is, where it is found, how it has changed through time, and how it functions at both the local and regional levels.
CHAPTER OUTLINE
I. Adaptive Strategies
A. Yehudi Cohen used the term adaptive strategy to describe a group’s system of economic production.
B. Cohen has developed a typology of cultures using this distinction, referring to a relationship