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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
The Origins of the Food-producing Economy [and Comments and Reply]
Beteiligte:
Kabo, Vladimir;
Forni, Gaetano;
Galvin, Kathleen F.;
Heskel, Dennis L.;
Rosen, Steven A.;
Shnirelman, V. A.;
Smith, Andrew B.;
Watkins, Trevor
Erschienen:
University of Chicago Press, 1985
Erschienen in:
Current Anthropology, 26 (1985) 5, Seite 601-616
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0011-3204;
1537-5382
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Beschreibung:
The formation of the productive economy is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon. Of this set of problems, the author addresses one that has received comparatively little attention, the socioeconomic prerequisites for agriculture. He is interested primarily in the processes occurring within a community of hunter-gatherers during the transition to agricuture, in other words, in the social aspects of this phenomenon. The sources of the productive economy lie in the appropriative economy. One of the most important prerequisites of the productive economy is the development of the community, the fundamental socioeconomic unit of the appropriative society. The process of transformation of the preagricultural community is clearly exemplified by societies on the borderline between appropriative and productive economies. Different stages of transition to the productive economy are observed in these societies. As the transition to agriculture and changes in the forms of social adaptation occur, the whole social structure of the society of former hunter-gatherers is gradually transformed. These qualitative advances occur mainly within the community, the most important instrument of social adaptation. The author attempts to reconstruct the process of transition to the productive economy in its various stages using data from ethnography and archeology.