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Assignment 4
Joseph L. Gonzalez
TESC – ANT 101
June 30 2014
Question # 1
Food foraging societies are people who are primarily nomadic and spend most of their time gathering plants and hunting animals for subsistence. One example of such of a society would be the Ju/'hoansi people. The roles of each gender gives them certain responsibilities and tasks to perform, although it is not at all uncommon for men to perform duties that a woman would normally tend to. The women of this society can travel up to twelve miles per day to gather food such as nuts and other wild plant foods. Most Ju/`hoansi were nomadic hunters and gatherers until the latter part of the 20th century. Since they live in a very hostile desert environment, they had to keep moving in order to keep eating, since food and water resources were rare to come about.
Pastoralism or pastoral farming is a branch off agriculture where people raise livestock. An example of this way of life would be the Nuer people in Sudan. They reside near the headwaters of the Nile where they raise their cattle for their subsistence needs. Not only do they raise the cattle to nourish themselves but base their wealth on their cattle. The men sped most of their time tending to their cattle, and serve as warriors fighting the neighboring tribes for pride, cattle, and land, while the women manage the household along with milking the cows with the children. Societies that use horticulture for their source of subsistence cultivate crops with simple but effective hand tools without using irrigation or the plow.
Life would be hard at first but I am sure over time it would come as a natural way of life. I know that society as a whole would get great benefits from it because you would have to work for all your necessary means to life. It really goes back to the old theory survival of the strongest. If you could not work for your means to live them you would...
