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| A form of livelihood involving temporary use of large areas of land and a high degree of spatial mobility |
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| the linked processes of livelihood, consumption, and exchange |
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| 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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| the dominant way of making a living in a culture. |
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| mode of livelihood based on obtaining food that is available in nature through gathering, hunting, fishing, or scavenging. |
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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 hole. |
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Mode of livelihood based on growing domesticated crops in gardens, using simple hand tools.
Shifting cultivation is an alternative name |
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| 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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| a mode of live lie hood that involves continuous use of the same land and resources. |
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| a form of livelihood that involves continuous use of the same land and resources |
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| 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 |
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| a form of agriculture that is capital-intensive, substituting machinery and purchased inputs for human and animal labor. |
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| Industrialism/informatics |
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| 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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| salaried or wage-based work registered in official statistics |
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| work that is not officially registered and sometimes illegal |
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| a grand feast in which guests are invited to eat and to receive gifts from the hosts. |
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| the dominant pattern, in a culture, of using things up or spending resources in order to satisfy demands. |
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| the dominant pattern, in a culture, of transferring goods, services, and other items between and among people and groups. |
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| 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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| 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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| an unwritten, culturally embedded rule that prevents an individual from becoming wealthier or more powerful than anyone else. |
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| a category of a personal or household budged used to provide for consumption needs and desires. |
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| a culturally defined right to life-sustaining resources. |
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| a plant grown primarily for sale rather than for one's own use. |
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| a medium of exchange that can be used for a variety of goods |
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| a system of transfers in which the goal is either immediate or eventual equality in value. |
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| a system of transfers in which one party seeks to make a profit. |
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| exchange involving the least conscious sense of interest in material gain or thought of what might be received in return. |
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| something given with no expectation or thought of a return. |
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| an exchange of approximately equally valued goods or services, usually between people roughly equal in social status. |
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| 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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| the buying and selling of commodities under competitive conditions, in which the forces of supply and demand determine value. |
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| the formalized exchange of one thing for another according to set standards of value. |
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| the rate of births in a population or the rate of population increase in general |
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| 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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| an attitude or policy that encourages childbearing. |
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| 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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| the onset of menstruation |
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| the cessation of menstruation |
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| the killing of an infant or child |
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| an individual's patterned and characteristic way of behaving, thinking, and feeling. |
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| a time in the human life cycle that occurs universally and involves a set of biological markers and sexual maturation. |
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| 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) |
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| a range of practices involving partial or total removal of the clitoris and labia. |
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| 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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| a person who is biologically female but takes on a male gender role. |
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| in india, a blurred gender role in which a person, usually biologically male, takes on female dress and behavior. |
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| the existence within a culture of multiple categories of felinity, masculinity, and blurred genders that are tolerated and legitimate. |
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| lack of sexual attraction or interest in sexual activity. |
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| motherhood, or the cultural process of becoming a mother |
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| fatherhood, or the cultural process of becoming a father |
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| customs applying to the behavior of fathers during and shortly after the birth of their children. |
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