Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation II: How Did Food Production Transform Culture?
Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation II: How Did Food Production Transform Culture?
This chapter introduces various subsistence strategies that are based on food production--pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture. Food production required new forms of resource allocation and these are discussed here also. An evolutionary-ecological approach, introduced in Chapter 5, continues as the model within which materials are discussed. At the completion of this chapter students should be able to:
Describe subsistence strategies and economics within an evolutionary-ecological model
Examine sociocultural changes brought by food producing subsistence strategies
Identify strategies common to horticulture and pastoralism
Identify the strategies common to agriculture and industrialism
