Hiwi Essay

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The Hiwi is an example of a modern hunter-gatherers group. They obtained most or all of their food by hunting wild animals or gathering wild plants. This term is also known as hunter-gatherer or forage. The Hiwi reveals there are a lot of variations within the diet of small foraging society. The Hiwi source for food are diverse, they gathered different kind of animal and plants from different places such as savannas, forest, rivers, and swamps. Because of the geographical factors, Hiwi doesn 't eat the same thing for the whole year. They have to hunt and gather food depending on the weather and season. During the rainy season, for example, the Hiwi hunt animals in the forest, rather than lakes and lagoons. The main sources for Hiwi people …show more content…
The Kiwi also consume food like palm nuts, palm hearts, several different fruits, and honey. The Hiwi also bought foods from another village such as rice, noodles, cornflour, and sugar.

I think the Hiwi diet doesn 't support the claims of Paleo dieters that live in modern cities. Paleo diet is a diet based on the foods that people from the paleothic era (around 2.6 million years ago) consume. The diet basically tells us to abandon our modern agricultural diets, such as dairy and processed food and eats like our paleolithic ancestor. The Hiwi diet is a proof that even a small foraging society has a lot of variation for their source of foods. This is very different that the paleo dieters that suggest us to really restrict our food selection. People argue that the paleo diet, which based on what our ancestor eat in the paleolithic era, is not true. A lot of food that we consume today that people thinks it 's
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They have diverse varieties for their source of food. They didn 't restrict themselves to consume only several types of foods. The only thing that is different is that I don 't have to hunt and gather wild plants to consume. But it is of course very difficult for me to eat exactly the same as the Hiwi or following their diet. Most of their source of meat is wild animals. My source of meat basically is cow and chicken. They are not considered as wild animals. It is also hard to eat palm nuts and palm hearts for me because I 'm not familiar with it. I also prefer to consume berries and fruits that grown by farmers, rather than wild berries and fruits which may be bad for my

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