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A 6 page paper examining the nature of foraging, and comparing its economic structure to redistribution and market exchange. The paper uses the !Kung or Ju/’hoansi of Southwest Africa as the example of a modern foraging society. Bibliography lists 5 sources in 12 endnotes. AAA style.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSforage.rtf
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Foraging represents the pinnacle of "living off the land." Groups of people took what the land had to offer in terms of either plant or animal life.
All people were foragers prior to 10,000 years ago, and a few groups - notable among them the !Kung or Ju/hoansi - persist in foraging even today.1 Modern foraging
typically occurs in areas where the environment is inhospitable to farming. II. Foraging Foragers are not farmers by any definition. Some
foraging groups in East Africa and Western North America are known to have practiced controlled burning of grasslands as a means of encouraging new plant growth, and other groups are
believed to have adhered to the same practice.2 They did not, however, actively plant crops. Because they performed no action that tied
them to any particular place, foraging groups do not make permanent settlements. Without practicing farming, the land will support a group only so long. The group needs to
move to another area before the current one is depleted, so (1) the group will have no interruption in its food supply and (2) the land can recover and the
group (or another one) can again use the area to meet its needs at a future time. Because foragers locations are never permanent,
neither are the structures in which they live.3 They also are not averse to leaving all of their dwellings behind when move to a new area. The length
of time they remain in a single location largely depends on the size of the group and the nature of the immediate environment, which in many respects dictates the size
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