from time immemorial humans have relied on the seas for their food and subsistence elaborate
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Subsistence system
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- A society's sustenance system, like all human systems, is inextricably tied to other aspects of culture such as kinship, politics, and religion. Although we may study these systems separately, it's vital to remember that in the real world, all parts of culture intersect in intricate ways.
- Consider harvest rituals, which are religious practises aimed at increasing food production. Religious beliefs, as well as the demands and obstacles of acquiring food, influence these rituals.
- Similarly, subsistence systems are the economic foundation of all societies. Every family or household must labour to put food on the table, and this labour is the foundation of a domestic economy that interacts with the modes of production and exchange detailed in the Economics chapter.
- When anthropologists first began studying subsistence systems, they began with classification, as do all scientists. Anthropologists recognised the value of categorising similar civilizations into types, or categories, based on the variety of activities they employed in their search for sustenance. These classifications allowed for cross-cultural comparisons.
- At the most basic level, civilization can be divided into an immediate return system or a delayed return system for finding food. Residents of a small fishing town who eat the fish they catch every day see a quick return on their investment.
- Farmers that have to wait several months between planting seeds and harvesting have a delayed return system. Foraging is a way of subsistence that relies on wild plant and animal food supplies that are already present in the ecosystem rather than domesticated species that have been tampered with by humans.
- Hunting for animal nutrition is an important part of the foraging lifestyle, and foragers capture and eat a wide range of animals, from squirrels taken with a bow and arrow or a blow dart to buffalo once slaughtered in large numbers in communal hunts.
- Many foraging groups rely on fishing for marine resources for protein, which encompasses everything from harvesting coastal shellfish and crab to gathering offshore resources like deep sea fish and marine mammals like whales and seals.
- Gathered wild plant resources, including as fruits, nuts, roots, tubers, and berries, often contribute a major amount of the calories that go into any meal, supplementing the protein from hunting or fishing.
- Gathering necessitates expert knowledge of where to find plant resources, when to gather them, and how to prepare them for consumption. The only immediate return subsistence system is foraging.
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