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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Subsistence economy."”.
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Variability in Thule Inuit Subsistence Economy: A Faunal Analysis of OkRn-1, Banks Island, N.W.T.
… of the qarmaq; 3) assess change in Thule subsistence strategies on Banks Island over time; 4) identify similarities/differences between OkRn-1 and contemporary sites in the western Canadian Arctic. Ringed seal was the dietary staple of the qarmaq and Arctic fox were exploited for their …
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"Holy dwarves" and "devil babies": An anthropological world-survey of stigmatization of the disabled
… format in terms of emic socio-cultural level, subsistence economy, and religion. I suggest that responses to disability are cultural specific, and that these individualized responses are filtered through cultural perceptions of reality and transformed into various treatment strategies of care, …
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Social change in the West Sumatran village : 1908-1945
… and a relatively closed society based on subsistence economy and led by lineage heads. The nature of the villages began to be undermined after the introduction of monetary taxation in 1908; the penetration of a monetary economy; the expansion of cash crop cultivation; and the emergence of …
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A forgotten corner of Namibia: aspects of the history of the Caprivi Strip, c1939-1980
… migrant labour, mission or Christian eduction, subsistence economy, medical history, traditional institutions and contested chieftaincies, cross border history, landscape perceptions. Instead of specificity, a researcher on a area such as the Caprivi Strip where there is poverty of research will …
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Aboriginal Dispossession and Proletarianization in Canadian Industrial Capitalism: Creating the Right Profile for the Labour Market
… as the competitive antithesis to traditional-subsistence economy relations. Positing the facts of Aboriginal proletarianization within a political economic framework is an addition to the critique of capital. The research of the paper is anchored within: the numbered treaty framework and its …
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From hunters to fisherman? Developing marine resource specialization on the Santa Barbara Channel Analysis of the artifacts and midden constituents from Ca-Sba-71
… be used. It is postulated that the political economy, resource management strategies and environmental conditions are critical to understanding cultural development that culminated in the historic Chumash; Specific questions relating to SBa-71 include: (a) What is the time span represented by …
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A pilot study on the development and testing of an instrument for assessment of dependency needs of older persons in South Africa
… live in extreme poverty, often in rural subsistence-economy conditions. Instruments used in other countries, which assume a certain level affluence, are thus not applicable to the majority of the South African population.
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An assessment of the health status by non-specific stress indicators in early farming populations from central and southern Africa
… factors and biology has shown that subsistence economy only influences a fraction of human behaviour, health and well being. The results of this study argue that generalisations about prehistoric farming peoples cannot be made, until further research work is done.
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Moral Economy Meets Global Economy: Negotiating Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihood among Shrimp Farming Households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
… contrasting globalization-induced changes with a subsistence economy, this study highlights the ways in which rural households perceive and respond to the structural transformations and changes in their living environment, and the implications thereof for sustainable livelihoods.</p>
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Inuit Harvesting Strategies in the Canadian Arctic and Implications for Wildlife Management
… occurred when the rifle was introduced to their subsistence economy. The evidence supporting the Pleistocene overkill theory and the claim that hunters over-exploited some of the major barren-ground caribou herds in the Northwest Territories is examined. The evidence is found to be unproven and …
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Urban Herders: An Archaeological and Isotopic Investigation into the Roles of Mobility and Subsistence Specialization in an Iron Age Urban Center in Mali
… among mobility, sedentism, and the livestock economy of Jenné-jeno, one of the earliest and best known urban systems in sub-Saharan Africa (occupied ca. 250 BC to AD 1400). Drawing on excavations at the ancient city of Jenné-jeno and those conducted at two neighboring sites (Tato à Sanouna and …
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Early formative subsistence and agriculture in southeastern Mesoamerica
… addresses questions regarding the nature of subsistence strategies practiced by Early Formative inhabitants of the Mazatan area on the Pacific Coast of southeastern Mesoamerica. Previous archaeological research indicates that estuarine and riverine faunal resources provided the main basis for …
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Social Organisation And Change In Bronze Age South Asia: A multi-proxy approach to urbanisation, deurbanisation and village life through phytolith and macrobotanical analysis
… development, and the evolution of the prevalent subsistence strategies have been explained through the use of relatively simplistic binary models. Cities have often been regarded as the driving force in Indus society, with demands for wheat and barley leading to shifts in village-level …
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Some issues of regional development and planning in Libya
… namely, the dualism of the space economy. The reversal of regional imbalance becomes a complex problem because the polarizing process is historically conditioned and is deeply ingrained into the structural economy. Accordingly, the present study of regional development in Libya …
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A comparative study of activity-related skeletal changes in 3rd-2nd millennium BC coastal fishers and 1st millenium AD inland agriculturists in Chile, South America
… northern Chile who practised two contrasting subsistence economies such as marine hunting and gathering with agricultural farmers were compared. The skeletal markers analysed were enthesophytes, osteoarthritis, spondylolysis, os acromiale, osteochondritis dissecans as well as changes in size, …
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Incentives, investment and economic diversification : the case of manufacturing development in Botswana
… in 1966. The country was primarily a subsistence economy largely founded on agriculture, with a modicum of tourism. However, Botswana has since experienced rapid economic growth. This growth has been propelled by the mining sector, particularly the diamond industry. The reliance of …
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Changing aspects of economic and family structures in Kalārdasht, a district in Northern Iran, up to 1978
… the involvement of the younger generation in an economy based on non-agricultural wage labour. The study is based on fieldwork carried out in four villages of the district from August 1977 to October 1978. One of these villages, Rudbarak, has experienced dramatic change, due to economic and …
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A Landscape of War: On the Nature of Conflict in South Lebanon
… other forms of agricultural practice generating subsistence and income and underpinning an ongoing presence in place. The southern borderland is also entangled in an ongoing war condition that cyclically erupts, disrupts, destructs, (re)constructs, and has done for generations now. War in South …
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Auf der Suche nach Sicherheit und Gemeinschaft : die Wirtschaft der Frauen in Harare, Simbabwe
… to transform their activity fields in a gendered economy, and what development agencies can do in order to support and not endanger women's livelihood strategies. In detail, it is studied, how women combine their resources in subsistence and market production, how they use their social networks to …
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Beyond GNP: Economic Freedom as a Determinant of Basic Human Needs.
Research concerning ‘basic needs' in the Human Rights literature has consistently found a positive and significant relationship between measures of wealth and basic needs provision. This study utilizes a relatively new measure of economic freedom to test hypotheses regarding general macro-economic …
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