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Ecological anthropology

Specialization within anthropology that focuses on subsistence strategies and bow people exploit and adapt to their environments.

Subsistence patterns

Methods of obtaining food using available land and resources, available labour, energy, tech.

Foragers

People whose subsistence pattern is hunting and gathering.

Food producers

Users of a subsistence strategy that transforms and manages the environment in order to obtain food

Pastoralism

Subsistence strategy focusing on raising and caring for large herds of domesticated animals.

Horticulture

Subsistence strategy that focuses on small scale farming using a relatively simple technology

Agriculture

Subsistence strategy focusing on intensive farming, investing a great deal of time, energy, tech.

Carrying capacity

Number of people who can be sustained by the resources and environment in which they live.

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.

Redistribution

The gathering together and reallocation of food and resources to ensure everyone's survival.

Nomads

People who lack permanent homes, but travel to sources of food as the food becomes seasonally available

Transhumance

Practice among pastoralists of moving to new pastureland on a seasonal basis.

Sedentism

Settlement pattern involving long term permanent settlements

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.