cultural anthropology final 2

major cultural contributions made possible with intensive agriculture

• arts

• hierarchy

• armies

• priests

• wealth economy

incan vertical economy

bottom - hunting and gathering

middle low - maize and beans

middle high - potatoes

high - llamas and alpacas

chinese cosmology

filial piety - respecting elders

Incan cosmology

must serve the emperor because he is the direct descendent of inti the sun god

hindu cosmology

karma determines your caste when you reincarnate

portugal and spains contribution to global connectedness

• language

• the spread of people (mestizo population)

• the spread of religion

the parts of wallersteins capitalism theory

• needs people that provide cheap labor

• the people with capital (consumers)

semi periphery

spain, portugal, brazil, Mexico, india

core

the US, england, france, netherlands

periphery

ethiopia, Bangladesh, Haiti

industrial revolution

• lots of sheep

• cotton industry

• poor farmers lost jobs because of sheep

• money from slave, sugar spice and cotton trade (global capital)

• business people could invest

• business people invested in technology

• mass production of wool clothing

the first global commodity

cotton from Europe/US ships to indonesia and bangladesh factories

what sugar, tea and coffee have in common

• grown in non-european countries

• indigenous low-wage labor

• stimulants

beneficial globalization

• give people access to living wage jobs

• make employees the owners and laborers