Ride the Storm: Navigating Through Unstable Periods / Katerina Rudko (Belka G...
Subsistence Type of Societies
1. Horticulturalists - Agriculturalists
• Horticulture: an
agricultural technology
distinguished by the use of
hand tools to grow
domesticated plants.
• Does not use draft animals,
irrigation, or specially
prepared fertilizers.
• How are the subsistence
practices, social
organization, and political
organization structured?
2.
3. The Ashaninka and Yanomami as Examples
• Incredible knowledge of
the forest.
• Technology such as hoe,
plow, steel.
• Women cultivate.
• Men slash and burn.
• Same plot for 1-3 years.
• Fallow 25 years.