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Showing 1 to 20 of 561 for “"subsistence"”.
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Subsistence whaling in Alaska
In a splendid geographic setting, the Eskimo of western and northwestern Alaska have for centuries risked the ice and elements in pursuit of one of the largest and most magnificent animals on earth, the Bowhead whale. The life cycle of the Bowhead whale wholly depends on the pack ice, near the edge …
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Entrepreneurial marketing in subsistence marketplaces
There are more than a billion poverty-stricken entrepreneurs in the world who run micro-enterprises to meet basic consumption needs. This pervasive phenomenon presents an interesting theoretical conundrum - that of consumer-entrepreneur duality. This duality blurs the boundaries between consumption …
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Wick irrigation systems for subsistence farming
… has been noted as a key method to help lift subsistence farmers out of poverty. With water scarity growing around the globe and lack of access to electricity still prevalent in rural areas, the need to develop an energy efficient irrigation system that simultaneous limits wasted water while …
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Renbaan cave : stone tools, settlement and subsistence
This project describes and interprets the results from the Renbaan Cave excavation and situates the site in the context of contemporary Later Stone Age studies in the southwestern Cape. It is designed to complement the research of professor John Parkington. It is argued that settlement and …
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BON APPЀTIT: FAUNAL SUBSISTENCE AT FORT TOMBECBE (1SU7)
… and contrasts the French and British faunal subsistence strategies employed by those stationed at the fort as observed from the Bakery and soldiers’ Barracks contexts. My findings of analyzing faunal remains from these contexts shows that both French and British soldiers were forced to rely …
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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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Subsistence Change and Continuity in Southeast Asian Prehistory
… presents a model to explain why and how subsistence patterns change, particularly the change from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Southeast Asia. The thesis of the dissertation is the following: People make changes in their subsistence pattern when they can obtain a greater, more …
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Nutritional consequences of prehistoric subsistence strategies in lower Central America
This thesis presents new data on subsistence strategies and examines patterns of nutritional status of prehistoric populations that inhabited tropical coastal environments in lower Central America during the period from 5000 B.C. to A.D. 1550. The subsistence bases of archaeological populations are …
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Management and regulation of local subsistence hunting in north Alaska
… in north Alaska, with particular reference to subsistence hunting patterns. Chapter 3 examines eight federally operated regimes in which wildlife is implicated: international treaties, the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, the …
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Commercialism, subsistence, and competency on the Western Virginia frontier, 1765--1800
… the pioneers of the Appalachian Mountains with subsistence farming, economic independence, and a certain degree of hostility toward capitalism. This thesis disproves the myth of pioneer self-sufficiency by demonstrating how the men and women who settled in western Virginia during the final third …
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Subsistence purchasing procedures of selected federal and state institutions in Michigan
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Institution Administration, 1955
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The perceptions of climate change among subsistence fishers in Paternoster, South Africa
… change, and one of the most affected groups are subsistence fishers who depend heavily on the fragile marine ecosystem and environment. This study looks at the experiences, perceptions and strategies concerning adapting to change of subsistence fishers in Paternoster. Paternoster is a historical …
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HUNTERS IN THE GARDEN: YUP’IK SUBSISTENCE AND THE AGRICULTURAL MYTHS OF EDEN
Yup’ik writers and Yup’ik subsistence offer valuable challenges, parallels, and alternative models to mainstream nature writing’s discourse surrounding human relationships to the land, a discourse that carries an inherent agricultural bias. An introduction to western Alaska’s Nunivak Island …
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HUNTERS IN THE GARDEN: YUP’IK SUBSISTENCE AND THE AGRICULTURAL MYTHS OF EDEN
Yup’ik writers and Yup’ik subsistence offer valuable challenges, parallels, and alternative models to mainstream nature writing’s discourse surrounding human relationships to the land, a discourse that carries an inherent agricultural bias. An introduction to western Alaska’s Nunivak Island …
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Evidence of Climatic Influence on Subsistence Strategies at Sage Hen Springs, Nevada
… analysis of these data focusing on patterns of subsistence and mobility strategies throughout the Archaic. Results of this analysis support existing models of lifeways in the northwest Great Basin at the small scale and point to climatic factors as influences on the cultural shift in the latter …
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