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Ecological anthropology |
Specialization within anthropology that focuses on subsistence strategies and bow people exploit and adapt to their environments. |
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Subsistence patterns |
Methods of obtaining food using available land and resources, available labour, energy, tech. |
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Foragers |
People whose subsistence pattern is hunting and gathering. |
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Food producers |
Users of a subsistence strategy that transforms and manages the environment in order to obtain food |
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Pastoralism |
Subsistence strategy focusing on raising and caring for large herds of domesticated animals. |
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Horticulture |
Subsistence strategy that focuses on small scale farming using a relatively simple technology |
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Agriculture |
Subsistence strategy focusing on intensive farming, investing a great deal of time, energy, tech. |
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Carrying capacity |
Number of people who can be sustained by the resources and environment in which they live. |
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Settlement pattern |
The way people distribute themselves in their environment, including where they locate their dwellings, bow they group dwellings into settlements, and how permanent or transitory those settlements are. |
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Redistribution |
The gathering together and reallocation of food and resources to ensure everyone's survival. |
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Nomads |
People who lack permanent homes, but travel to sources of food as the food becomes seasonally available |
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Transhumance |
Practice among pastoralists of moving to new pastureland on a seasonal basis. |
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Sedentism |
Settlement pattern involving long term permanent settlements |
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Peasants |
Rural agriculturalists who are partly enmeshed in a larger social and economic system. Part of their production is devoted to supporting the larger system and its dominant elite. |