ANTH 201 Chapter : CultureReadings
15 Mar 2019
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Subsistence economics getting food for themselves and their families. Food collection a food getting strategy that obtains wild plant and animal resources through gathering, hunting, scavenging, or fishing. Foragers or hunter gatherers those whom gather the food, and hunt it. Horticulture conjure up visions of people with green thumbs growing orchids and other flowers in greenhouses. Anthro it means growing of crops of all kinds with relatively simple tools and methods, in the absence of permanently cultivated fields. Extensive or shifting cultivation-- slash and burn techniques. Commercialization any area of life and which involves increasing dependence on buying and selling, usually with money as the medium of exchange. Pastoralism most agriculturalists keep and breed some animals, but a small number of societies depend mostly for their living on domesticated herds of animals that feed on natural pasture. In many societies plant and marine resources are more important than game animals in a diet.
