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33 Cards in this Set
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Agriculture
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a mode of production that involves growing crops w/ the use of plowing, irrigation and fertilizer.
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Extensive Strategy
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a form of production involving temporary use of large areas of land and high degree of spatial mobility.
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Family Farming
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(formerly termed peasant agriculture) a form of agriculture in which farmers produce mainly to support themselves but also produce goods for sale in the market system.
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Foraging
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collecting food that is available in nature, by gathering, fishing or hunting.
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Formal Sector
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salaried or wage-based work registred in official statistics.
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Horticulture
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a mode of production base on growing domesticated crops in gardens using simple hand tools.
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Indigenous Knowledge
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local knowledge about the invironment, including plants, animals and resources.
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Industrial Capital Agriculture
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a form of agriculture that is capitalintensive, substituring machinery and purchased inputs for human and animal labor.
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Industrialism/informatics
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a mode of production in which goods are produced through mass employment in business and commercial operations and through the creation and movement of information through electronic media.
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Informal Sector
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work that is outside the formal sector, not officialy registred, and sometimes illegal.
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Intensive Strategy
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A form of production that involves continuous use of the same land and resources.
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Mode of Production
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the dominant pattern of making a living in a culture.
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Pastoralism
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a mode of production based on keeping domesticated animal herds and using their products, such as meat and milk, for most of the diet.
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Public/Private Dichotomy
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gender division in society that emerged w/ agriculture, whereby men are more involved w/ the nondomestic domain and women are more involved in activities in or near the home.
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Use Rights
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a system of property relations in which a person or group has socially recognized priority in access to particular resources such as gathering, hunting, and fishing areas and water holes.
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Below-replacement Fertility
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a situation in which births are fewer than deaths, leading to population decline.
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Brideprice or bridewealth
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the transfer of cash and goods from the groom's family to the bride's family and to the bride.
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Demographic transition
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the change of the agricultural pattern of high fertility and mortality to the industrial pattern of low fertility and mortality
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Dowry or groomprice
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the transfer of cash and goods from the bride's family to the newly married couple and to the groom's family.
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Ethnocide
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the destruction of a culture w/out physically killing its people.
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Femicide
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the murder of a person based on the fact of her being a female.
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Fertility
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the rate of births in a population, or the rate of population increase in general.
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Genocide
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the destroction of a culture and its people through physical extermination.
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Infanticide
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the killing of an infant or child.
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Menarche
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the onset of menstruation
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Menopause
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the stop of menstruation
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Migration
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the movement of a person or people from one place to another.
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Mode of Reproduction
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the dominant patter of fertility and mortality in a culture.
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Mortality
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deaths in a population, or the rate of population decline in general or from particular causes.
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Pronatalism
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an ideology promoting many children.
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Replacement-level Fertility
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a situation when births equal deaths, leading to maintenance of current population size.
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Sex Ratio
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the number per males per 100 females in a population.
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Sex-selective Infanticide
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the killing an infant or child because of its sex.
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