The following is a list of subsistence techniques:
- Hunting and Gathering, also known as Foraging
- freeganism involves gathering of discarded food in the context of an urban environment
- gleaning involves the gathering of food that traditional farmers have left behind in their fields
- Cultivation
- Horticulture
- plant cultivation, based on the use of simple tools.
- Agriculture
- cultivation involving continuous use of crop land, and is more labor-intensive than horticulture.
- Pastoralism
- the raising of grazing animals
- Pastoral nomadism: all members of the pastoral society follow the herd throughout the year.
- Transhumance or agro-pastoralism: part of the society follows the herd, while the other part maintains a home village.
- Ranch agriculture: non-nomadic pastoralism with a defined territory
- Alternative ends
- people devote their time, resources, and energy to five broad categories of ends: subsistence, replacement, social, ceremonial, and rent.
- Subsistence fund: work is done to replace calories lost through life activities.
- Replacement fund: work is expended maintaining the technology necessary for life.
- Social fund: work is expended to establish and maintain social ties.
- Rent fund: work is expended to satisfy the obligations owed political or economic superiors.
- Distribution and Exchange
- Redistribution
- Reciprocity
- exchange between social equals.
- Potlatching
- a widely studied ritual in which sponsors (helped by their entourages) gave away resources and manufactured wealth while generating prestige for themselves.
- LETS - Local Exchange Trading Systems.
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