Anthropology › Section G · Economic anthropology › Topic G.5
Horticulture and agriculture
Growing crops let people settle, store food and eventually build cities, but it also brought harder work, new diseases and new inequalities. Anthropologists separate two very different ways of cultivating plants and ask what each one does to social life.
In this topic
- Plants under human control
- Horticulture: extensive cultivation
- The Hanunóo: rethinking slash and burn
- Worked example: how much land does swidden need?
- Land rights and ritual
- Agriculture: intensive cultivation
- Bali: water temples and the Green Revolution
- The costs of farming
- Worked example: who feeds the world?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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