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 | *ʻWateya* are | During the hungry time (*tagwala*), people eat | | *ʻWateya* are | During the hungry time (*tagwala*), people eat |
-| - planted in the middle of the year (May or June)\\  - tended carefully for seven months\\  - harvested all at once\\  \\  People eat as little as possible of the harvest\\  \\  The best is reserved for gifts | - sweet potato\\   - cassava\\   - *halutu*, another species of yam\\   - banana\\   - breadfruit\\   - fish\\   - greens\\   - pineapples (especially around Christmas)\\   - large boiled chestnuts\\   - wild mushrooms\\   - pumpkin\\   - sometimes taro |+| - planted after Christmas\\  - tended carefully for seven months\\  - harvested all at once\\  \\  People eat as little as possible of the harvest\\  \\  The best is reserved for gifts | - sweet potato\\   - cassava\\   - *halutu*, another species of yam\\   - banana\\   - breadfruit\\   - fish\\   - greens\\   - pineapples (especially around Christmas)\\   - large boiled chestnuts\\   - wild mushrooms\\   - pumpkin\\   - sometimes taro |
  
  
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 OK, a lot of food. But, for Auhelawa, it’s not “real food,” because //ʻwateya// is real food. OK, a lot of food. But, for Auhelawa, it’s not “real food,” because //ʻwateya// is real food.
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   * Peasants are partly integrated into a market economy and specialized division of labor. Industrial farms feed people in societies with a complex division of labor, and today, capitalist, market economies   * Peasants are partly integrated into a market economy and specialized division of labor. Industrial farms feed people in societies with a complex division of labor, and today, capitalist, market economies
  
-See Eriksen Eriksen (2015, 255–56) for more information.+See Eriksen (2015, 255–56) for more information.
  
 ===== Are these types of adaptation absolute? ===== ===== Are these types of adaptation absolute? =====
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 All of these types have fuzzy boundaries anyway, so we can never be absolutely sure whether a society is primarily based on one type or not. All of these types have fuzzy boundaries anyway, so we can never be absolutely sure whether a society is primarily based on one type or not.
  
-The difference between horticulture and agriculture is supposedly technological, but it really is marked by a change in the social system+The difference between horticulture and agriculture is supposedly technological, but it really is marked by a change in the social system.
  
 ===== Hunter-gatherers: The West’s noble/savage ===== ===== Hunter-gatherers: The West’s noble/savage =====
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 === The West’s favorite prop for any debate about life === === The West’s favorite prop for any debate about life ===
  
-  * Hunter-gatherers are “our contemporary ancestors” (Some anthropologists say this about every indigenous society; viz. Chagnon (1983, 214)).+  * Hunter-gatherers are “our contemporary ancestors” (Some anthropologists say this about every indigenous society; viz. Chagnon 1983, 214).
  
 ===== References and further reading ===== ===== References and further reading =====
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-Macintyre, Martha. 1980. “Changing Paths : An Historical Ethnography of the Traders of Tubetube.” https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/7534.+Macintyre, Martha. 1980. “Changing Paths : An Historical Ethnography of the Traders of Tubetube.” Ph.D. thesis, Canberra, A.C.T.: Australian National University. https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/7534. 
  
  
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