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Trader, Hunter, Herder, Other: Types and Categories of Nomadism

New Books in Anthropology

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What Is Hunting and Gathering?

Hunting and gathering could more concisely be summed up as foraging or searching out wild food resources, both plant and animal. Like pastoralists, hunter-gatherers tend to move around seasonally because wild animals also migrate seasonally; different plants are in season at different times of the year. The key difference between pastoralists and hunter- Gatherers is that pastoralists own domesticated animals which they migrate with,. Hunter-gatherer also migrate alongside animals but without the domestication and ownership of them.

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