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Extensive Strategy
Definition
A form of livelihood involving temporary use of large areas of land and a high degree of spatial mobility
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Economic system
Definition
the linked processes of livelihood, consumption, and exchange
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food security
Definition
the ability of an individual, household, group, or country to obtain an adequate diet over time in order to sustain health.
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mode of livelihood
Definition
the dominant way of making a living in a culture.
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Foraging
Definition
mode of livelihood based on obtaining food that is available in nature through gathering, hunting, fishing, or scavenging.
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Use Rights
Definition
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 hole.
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Horticulture
Definition
Mode of livelihood based on growing domesticated crops in gardens, using simple hand tools.

Shifting cultivation is an alternative name
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Pastoralism
Definition
also known as herding. A mode of livelihood based on keeping domesticated animals and using their products, such as meat and milk, for most of the diet.
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Agriculture
Definition
a mode of live lie hood that involves continuous use of the same land and resources.
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Intensive strategy
Definition
a form of livelihood that involves continuous use of the same land and resources
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family farming
Definition
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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industrial capital agriculture
Definition
a form of agriculture that is capital-intensive, substituting machinery and purchased inputs for human and animal labor.
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Industrialism/informatics
Definition
a mode of livelihood in which goods are produced through mass employment in business and commercial operation and through the creating and movement of information through electronic media.
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formal sector
Definition
salaried or wage-based work registered in official statistics
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informal sector
Definition
work that is not officially registered and sometimes illegal
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potlatch
Definition
a grand feast in which guests are invited to eat and to receive gifts from the hosts.
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mode of consumption
Definition
the dominant pattern, in a culture, of using things up or spending resources in order to satisfy demands.
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mode of exchange
Definition
the dominant pattern, in a culture, of transferring goods, services, and other items between and among people and groups.
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minimalism
Definition
a mode of consumption that emphasizes simplicity, is characterized by few and finite consumer demands, and involves an adequate and sustainable means to achieve them.
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consumerism
Definition
a mode of consumption in which people's demands are many and infinite and the means of satisfying them are insufficient and become depleted in the effort to satisfy these demands.
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leveling mechanism
Definition
an unwritten, culturally embedded rule that prevents an individual from becoming wealthier or more powerful than anyone else.
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consumption fund
Definition
a category of a personal or household budged used to provide for consumption needs and desires.
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entitlement
Definition
a culturally defined right to life-sustaining resources.
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cash crop
Definition
a plant grown primarily for sale rather than for one's own use.
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money
Definition
a medium of exchange that can be used for a variety of goods
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balanced exchange
Definition
a system of transfers in which the goal is either immediate or eventual equality in value.
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unbalanced exchange
Definition
a system of transfers in which one party seeks to make a profit.
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generalized reciprocity
Definition
exchange involving the least conscious sense of interest in material gain or thought of what might be received in return.
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pure gift
Definition
something given with no expectation or thought of a return.
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expected reciprocity
Definition
an exchange of approximately equally valued goods or services, usually between people roughly equal in social status.
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redistribution
Definition
a form of exchange that involves one person collecting goods or money from many members of a group, who then, at a later time and at a public event, "returns" the pooled goods to everyone who contributed.
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market exchange
Definition
the buying and selling of commodities under competitive conditions, in which the forces of supply and demand determine value.
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trade
Definition
the formalized exchange of one thing for another according to set standards of value.
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fertility
Definition
the rate of births in a population or the rate of population increase in general
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mode of reproduction
Definition
the predominant pattern, in a culture, of population change through the combined effect of fertility (birth rate) and mortality (death rate).
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pronatalism
Definition
an attitude or policy that encourages childbearing.
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demographic transition
Definition
the change from the agricultural pattern of high fertility and high mortality to the industrial pattern of low fertility and low mortality.
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menarche
Definition
the onset of menstruation
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menopause
Definition
the cessation of menstruation
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infanticide
Definition
the killing of an infant or child
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personality
Definition
an individual's patterned and characteristic way of behaving, thinking, and feeling.
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puberty
Definition
a time in the human life cycle that occurs universally and involves a set of biological markers and sexual maturation.
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adolescence
Definition
a culturally defined period of maturation from the time of puberty until adulthood that is recognized in some, but not all cultures.
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female gentile cutting (FGC)
Definition
a range of practices involving partial or total removal of the clitoris and labia.
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berdache
Definition
a blurred gender category, usually referring to a person who is biologically male but who takes on a female gender role.
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amazon
Definition
a person who is biologically female but takes on a male gender role.
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hijra
Definition
in india, a blurred gender role in which a person, usually biologically male, takes on female dress and behavior.
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gender pluralism
Definition
the existence within a culture of multiple categories of felinity, masculinity, and blurred genders that are tolerated and legitimate.
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asexuality
Definition
lack of sexual attraction or interest in sexual activity.
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matrescence
Definition
motherhood, or the cultural process of becoming a mother
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patrescence
Definition
fatherhood, or the cultural process of becoming a father
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couvade
Definition
customs applying to the behavior of fathers during and shortly after the birth of their children.
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