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| Main subsistence strategies |
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Foraging: live off land, no surplus, no ecological control
Horticulture: Non-intensive cultivation w/ simple tools & slash/burn
Pastoralism: Domesticated herd animals, trade for produce
Agriculture: Labor intensive continuous cropping, requires rules/laws/land ownership b/c of investment in it
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| How are goods exchanged between differend types of economies |
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Redistribution: (Chiefdoms/some nonindustrial states) Products from local level to hierarchical where reorganized/sent back down
Reciprocity: Exchange between equals. Generalized-giving w/no specific expectation of return. Balanced-Giving w/expectation of equivalent in return
Negative: Trying to maximize profits between distant trading partners |
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Exogamy: Members seek mates from other descent groups
Helps make economic ties and treaties
Endogamy: Marriage within same group
Religious, status, or different culture reasons |
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Everything has a spirit
Practiced by hoarders |
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"Force" is everywhere and some people can channell it in their bodies.
Mana is example
Practiced by polynesians |
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Impersonal sacred force in Animatism used by polynesians
LIke luck to us |
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Supernatural techniques used to accomplish a specific aim
Imitative:(voodoo dolls) indirectly affect someone
Contagious: direct |
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Rituals facilitating one's movement from one (social) state to another
Separation/Liminality/Incorporation |
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| When different cultures come into contact and one tries to sway the other into it's religious beliefs such as Europeans explaining how by following their religion the other peoples can have a chance at their wealth and success |
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Roles of arts in non-western societies
Are those who produce art always considered "artists"? |
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Production and appreciation of art are part of everyday life, as pop culture is in our own society
Often treated in same way as "fine art" (separated from its living sociocultural context
Or majority of community participates in community performances |
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