01:070:497 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kalahari Desert, Patrilineality, Social Relation
Document Summary
Similar to hunter-gathers, involves going out to search for and bring back food and supplies found in the environment. Redistributes, dominion is a large political community, not just an autonomous village. Chiefs, big men etc authrotative but had no real power, only persuasion. Hunting and gathering (foraging, moving between different parts of a territory for wild plants, animals, and water; part of the environment, not masters of it) Horticulture (gardening, slash and burn agriculture; many so called tribal peoples are horticulturalists) Pastoralism (herding of domesticated animals; characterized by nomadic lifestyle, transhumance) Agriculture (most common subsistence strategy in many parts of the developing world, requires access to permanent landholdings) Transformation from a society of foragers to a society of smallholders who eked out a living by herding, farming, and producing crafts along with some hunting and gathering (p. 102) Hunting and gathering only supplied 30% of food in 1994 compared to 85% in 1964.
