ANT100Y1 Chapter 6: Anthropology - Chapter 6.docx
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People rely on nature to make a living. Foraging traditionally correlates with the band social unit and with a mobile lifestyle. Modern foragers live on marginal lands (land not good for agricultural production) and do not survive solely by foraging. All modern foragers live in nation states and depend to some extent on government assistance they are not isolated. Basarwa, africa moved from land, critics claim this resettlement turned a society of free hunter gathers into communities dependent on food aid and government handouts. Band: basic unit of social organization among foragers. A band includes fewer than 100 people; it often splits up seasonally. Most foragers are egalitarian: contrasts in prestige are minor and are based on gender and age. Horticulture: nonindustrial system of plant cultivation in which plots lie fallow for varying lengths of time. Agriculture: nonindustrial system of plant cultivation characterized by continuous and intensive use of land and labour.
