Anthropology:four major strategies for getting food
Chapter 5 in the textbook focuses on the four major strategies for getting food: foraging, horticulture, pastoralism, and agriculture. Each of these four strategies possesses important characteristics. These strategies have also affected other aspects of human societies such as technology, settlement patterns, family life and religion. In the following essay I will be writing in depth about the four major strategies. The first strategy I will focus on is foraging. Foraging is sometimes called “hunting and gathering.� Foraging involves the collection of wild plants and hunting animals for food. Men were usually assigned the role of hunting, while women were sent out to collect things like berries, nuts, seeds, flowers, and fruit. Technology plays an important part in foraging as well. Before certain wild plants are eaten, lab tests are done to make sure the food is safe. Most foragers are nomads. They move with the availability of food and water. Foragers are not food producers so they do not contribute to any economic system. They
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Some common words found in the essay are:
, food production, major strategies, foraging horticulture, technology plays, reciprocity practiced, wild plants, pastoralist societies, fertilizers irrigation,
Approximate Word count = 711
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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