Subsistencea method whereby humans are able to continue their existence; condition of being able to stay alive; practices that maintain survival Practices/Making a Living, informs about the many ways human beings adapt to their environments and learn to make a living as the Orma pastoralists in East Africa above illustrates. This course takes approximately four weeks. Each lesson should take about a week, but you can work at your own pace. Cultural Anthropologythe holistic study of humanity in its broadest context in all times and places, ancient and contemporary genre seeks to view cultural concepts broadly, but “broadly” is not possible in the short eCourses on this website. However, this lesson brings an understanding that all people everywhere must learn the skills appropriate for subsistence practices and making a living. Such skills and adaptations are essential for survival.
For this series of lessons, internet resources are required.
After completing this series of lessons on Subsistence Practices/Making a Living, you will come to realize how production, acquisition, and consumption of foodany nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth is very much about Subsistence Practices and Making a Living worldwide; and that it is interconnected and related to the Food and Cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static course on this website.
Both topics are involved in understanding how human culture and subsistence practices works and how cultural patterns are involved in sustainabilitythe basic definition of sustainability is maintaining ecological balance; but for our purposes in studying human culture, we add two more dimensions of sustainability: social and economical, so sustainability is about maintaining social, economic, and ecological balance (as much as possible) and preservation, not only of human and all flora and fauna life forms, but the earth and its many complex ecosystems in which living things thrive.
These four lessons in this eCourse are valuable in understanding your current subsistence patterns and how they relate to making a living. Knowledge gained here translates to understanding one’s own day-to-day living patterns.
Subsistence Practices – Making a Living
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