Samburu Pastoralists: Read the article about the Samburu.

1		Who are the Samburu? Where do they live?
2		What role do cattle play in Samburu subsistence? What role do cattle play in Samburu society?
3		How has contact with the outside world changed Samburu society?
4		How are cattle central to Samburu culture? Is there something similar that is central to your own culture?

Affluence and Subsistence: Go to and read Marshall Sahlins' article "The Original Affluent Society".

5		What are the two courses to affluence? Which one best describes the path that Western, capitalist society is on?
6		How are hunter-gather groups generally viewed by agricultural and industrial societies? How did this view originate?
7		How is it that certain hunter-gatherer groups have "a kind of material plenty"? How is this related to the wants and desires of a group?
8		What subsistence activity is more efficient: farming or hunting and gathering?
9		According to Sahlins, what is poverty? Has it always been part of every human society?