Key Concepts of Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 6 Getting Food

Key Terms
Cash cropHorticulture
CommercializationHunting and gathering
Extensive or shifting cultivationIntensive agriculture
Food collectionPastoralism
Food productionPrairie
ForagersSlash-and-burn






Suggested Internet & InfoTrac College Edition Exercises
@ Visit http://www.fao.org/ and read one of the featured stories relating to food.
@ Visit web site: and explore some recipes from differenct parts of Africa. How do the recipes compare with what you used to?

College of Alameda Anthropology
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Updated August 2006