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karen

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Describe the foraging mode of livelihood, including its property relations and sustainability, and explain why it has been referred to as the original affluent society.
 
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What are use rights and in what mode of livelihood area they most prominent?
 
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Answer to Question 1

Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Foraging is based on obtaining food that is available in nature through hunting, gathering, fishing, and scavenging.
2. It is an extensive strategyit uses a large amount of land and a mobile population.
3. It is a sustainable system because it does not make destructive use of any particular resource and the resources renew naturally.
4. It is described as the original affluent society because foragers are often relatively healthy, have a varied diet, and have more leisure time than people in other modes of livelihood.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Use rights entail a person or group having socially recognized priority to access resource areas.
2. They are less formal than property relationships that include the notion of private ownership.
3. They are most prominent in foraging societies.
4. They are also found in pastoralist societies with regard to grazing land, but not animals or material goods, which are understood to be private property.



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