| For this unit on Food and Culture you should be able to:
1.Identify five major food-procurement categories found among the world’s populations.
2.Understand how people in other parts of the world use culture to adapt to their environment.
3.Discuss the impact of a culture’s environment and technology on its food acquisition strategies.
4.Explain the concept of carrying capacity, the consequences of exceeding it, and the theory of optimal foraging.
5.Describe four generalizations about food collecting societies.
6.Recognize the different degrees of reliability of food collection strategies and the relative success of groups in environments with stable food supplies.
7.Compare Ju/’hoansi and Inuit food collection strategies.
8.Understand the positive and negative cultural changes brought about by the Neolithic Revolution.
9.Be able to define horticulture and explain the limitations and the advantages of slash and burn cultivation.
10.Describe the differences between transhumance and nomadic pastoralism.
11.Understand how the change from horticulture to agriculture allowed the development of peasantry.
12.Recognize the expenses, as well as the benefits, of industrialized agriculture, especially in terms of environmental impact.
13.Explain the scientific rationality which people have developed because of the systematic observations required by their successful adaptation to their environments. |
