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hunter-gatherer

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Etymology

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Fromhunter +‎gatherer.

Noun

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hunter-gatherer (pluralhunter-gatherers)

  1. Amember of a group of people who live byhuntinganimals andgatheringedibleplants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals orfarmland.
    Coordinate term:pastoralist
    • 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, inAmerican Scientist[1], volume100, number 2, archived fromthe original on13 February 2012, page162:
      He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts ofhunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
    • 2022 July 11, Virginia Hefferman, “Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans”, inWired[2]:
      [] Wengrow and Graeber argue that the life ofhunter-gatherers before widespread farming was nothing like “the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory,” which hold that early humans lived in small bands in which they acted almost entirely on instinct, either brutish (as in Hobbes) or egalitarian and innocent (as in Rousseau).

Translations

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person whose main food source is hunting and gathering

References

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  • Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Unabridged, 1987.

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