ANTH 195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Breadfruit, Horticulture, Pastoralism
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Subsistence strategies-the decisions, pracices, even adaptaions, made by people to get what they need and want in order to survive: hunter-gatherers, horiculturalists, pastoralists, agriculturalists, industrialists. The gebusi-exhibit hunter-gatherer and horiculturalist strategies most strongly. Forage: bamboo shoots wild bush hen eggs, tarantulas, breadfruit, chestnuts, etc. Gardens (within an hour"s walk: plantains, horiculture vs agriculture horiculture-allow the land to lie fallow or pracice slash and burn techniques (clear land through slashing or burning and then plant crops there) agriculture-culivaion (irrigaion, fencing, plowing, ferilizaion) The gebusi were characterized as nomads by the australians because when the patrol men were around the gebusi would make camp in the forest and they would sort of disappear in the forest or at another setlement. Nomads-people who have no permanent residence and they shit setlement to hunt or tend to livestock; oten contrasted with sedentary peoples. Pastoralists depend on the domesicaion of animals and the use of their products to subsist.
