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What are the four major categories anthropologists use to discuss human-environment relationships?
 
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What do anthropologists mean by a division of labor?
 
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Answer to Question 1

The four major categories are hunting and gathering, agriculture, herding, and industrialism.

Answer to Question 2

This refers to the patterned ways in which productive tasks are divided up along the lines of gender, sex, skill and knowledge, interest, and other criteria.



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