Our goal will be to obtain a more broadly human understanding of gender. Back to top. It's common to think of the economy of a society as its basis, what drives everything else about it. The economy is, in turn, perceived to be a necessary consequence of the ecology. In other words, people have the economy they do in order to survive, and survival is precarious.
Farmers live in areas that can support farming, and everyone else is a forager.
None of these ideas is valid. This course will show you why. Well will see that the form the economy takes is an expression of cultural ideas just as religion, architecture, and clothing are. Non-western foraging and horticultural economies can and do produce surpluses for exchange. Until recently they did not use money, unlike western culture.