ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Animal Husbandry, Management System, Transhumance
28 Nov 2012
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Food is central to economics, politics, and society. Food is gendered, racialized, linked to morality, produced, consumed, a product. Subsistence strategies: the patterns of production, distribution and consumption that members of a society employ to ensure the satisfaction of their basic material survival needs. Slash and burn: clear plots of uncultivated land, burn the brush and plant their crops. Extensive agriculture: emphasizing the extensive use of land as farm plots are moved every few years. Fallow: the resting period between periods of agriculture use of a plot of land. Mechanized industrial agriculture: large-scale farming and animal husbandry is highly dependent on industrial methods of technology and production: highly efficient, requiring much fewer people to produce food, heavily dependent on fertilizers, technology, energy. Pastoral nomads: follow a seasonal migratory pattern that can vary, the timing and destinations of migrations are determined primarily by the needs of the herd. Transhumance pastoralists: seasonal migration between the same two locations.
