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Chapter 5 Vocab
Essentials to Cultural Anthropology textbook
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Anthropology
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03/18/2013

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Hunting and Gathering (foraging)
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Adaptation based on harvesting only wild (undomesticated) plants and animals
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agriculture (cultivation)
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Adaptation based primarily on planting, tending, and harvesting of domesticated plants (crops)
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herding (pastoralism)
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adaptation based on the control and breeding of domesticated livestock, which are taken to naturally occurring pastureland
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industrialism
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the productive technology that harnesses the energy of fossil fuels to satisfy human material needs and wants
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band
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a small foraging group with flexible composition that migrates seasonally
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domestication
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the process by which people control the distribution, abundance, and biological features of certain plants and animals in order to increase their usefulness to humans
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horticulture
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a method of cultivation in which hand tools powered by human muscles are used
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intensive agriculture
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a system of cultivation in which plots are planted annually or semiannually; usually uses irrigation, natural fertilizers, and plows powered by animals
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surplus
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food or other goods by a worker in excess of the amount needed for his or her own consumption as well as the needs of his or her dependents
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civilization
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a form of complex society in which many people live in cities
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peasants
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rural people who are integrates into a larger society politically and economically
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nomadism
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a form of seasonal mobility, usually referring to pastoral peoples who move their livestock herds to locations with lush pastureland
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transhumance
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the widespread pastoral pattern of migrating to different elevations in response to seasonal differences in temperature and pastureland
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globalization of production
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the process in which companies located in one country relocate their production facilities to other countries to reduce costs and be more competitive
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