Chapter 5
Remix Authors
Vanessa Martínez, Holyoke Community College
Demetrios Brellas, Framingham State University
Original Author
Isaac Shearn, Community College of Baltimore County
Learning Objectives
- Understand what anthropologists mean by Foodways, and describe the components of a culture’s Foodways.
- Identify the four modes of subsistence and describe the major activities associated with obtaining food in each system.
- Explain the relationship between the subsistence system used in a society and the amount of private property or wealth differences that develop.
- Understand and explain the complex relationships between food and all aspects of culture.
- Categorize the social and economic characteristics associated with agriculture and describe the benefits and drawbacks of the agricultural subsistence system.
- Appraise the ways in which human intervention in the environment has made it difficult to separate the “natural” from the human-influenced environment.
