Subsistence mode names how a social group actually gets its food. Wikipedia defines a hunter-gatherer as someone whose food comes from "procuring naturally occurring edible items from the local wildlife and vegetation via hunting, fishing and/or gathering," in contrast to farming or herding. This dimension groups societies that get their food the same basic way.
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Established Era Primary Discipline Subsistence Mode
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1. Wikipedia: Human Relations Area Files
WikipediaHuman Relations Area Files, lead section, founding sentence
A financially autonomous research agency based at Yale University since 1949, its mission is to promote understanding of cultural diversity and commonality in the past and present.
Human Relations Area Files, lead section, anthropologist sentence
Documents in both eHRAF databases are subject-indexed at the paragraph level by HRAF anthropologists.
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