Anthropology
you are required to make( FIVE ) annotations (thoughtful comments about an article). Thoughtful annotations may engage in key points in the readings, stimulate discussion, offer informative questions or comments. Highlight a sentence or paragraph and make an annotation. Each annotation should be around 3-4 sentences in length.
Please spread the annotation in different pages.
The example is from my other class
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During the century or so preceding 1492, most of humanity lived in class-stratified agricultural societies. The great majority of people in these societies were peasant farmers, producing their own subsistence and forced to deliver a significant share of their output (or labor, or cash income) to an elite, or ruling class, a class that usually held claim to the land and almost always held both formal and real power over the peasants
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The world consists of different people who come from different origins based on backgrounds, class, races among others. As a result, we have different groups in our the societies that tend to be separated based on access to power, resources and other things. This is what is commonly referred to as social stratification. According to the statements in the article, people lived in class-stratified agricultural societies in the past
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In any event, it is now generally accepted that the diffusion of agriculture took place fairly long ago and by the Middle-Ages agriculture had reached most of those regions in the Eastern Hemisphere in which environmental conditions are favorable for farming.
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The article suggests that in the past, people including African, European and Asian practiced agriculture. Many anthropologists have traced the origins of agriculture, associating farming with human processes of migration, population growth as well as agrarian revolution. Agricultural anthropology is regarded a breakthrough for sustainable farming.
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that improvements in agricultural production are taking place through innovations mainly on the farm itself. This is largely the case for family-scale farming in medieval and premedieval times.
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Agriculture is all about crops and people engaged in farming. Agricultural sectors has experienced significant changes and improvements over the years and this is attributed to innovations on farms championed by individuals. Human behavior and cultural practices have contributed to positive the positive changes in agriculture. Agriculture has always been the way of life for most people living in rural areas
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Some of these mercantile-maritime cities were quite small, others quite large, but it appears that most of them were at roughly the same level in the development of protocapitalist institutions, classes, and technology. This is not surprising since they were intimately connected to one another in a tight network of trade, along which ideas, techniques, goods, and people flowed in all directions, in constant criss-cross diffusion.28
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Despite the differences in races, class and other factors, people tend to intimately to one another through trade, cultural practices and behaviors. Like in the past when individuals remained connected through agricultural practices, human beings are still connected today through trade and agriculture. Agriculture is a pillar of economic development and success in most modern societies.
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When a farmer produces an agricultural “thing,”he or she must not only grow it but also transport it from field to farmstead and then to market, and must also transport inputs of water or fertilizer or labor from outside the farm. Farm production, therefore, involves bothchange of form and change of place.
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These statements suggests that farmers are often forced to move from one point to another as they engage in agricultural activities and trade. Does it mean agricultural activities fuel migration of people? From the article, it is evident that in the past farmers were moved and transported inputs and outputs to and from the market. Perhaps, this explains why some countries are characterized by people from different races and origins.
