hunting and gathering society
- noun
- /ˈhʌntɪŋ ənd ˈɡæðərɪŋ səˈsaɪəti/
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sociedad de cazadores-recolectores
- Anthropologists study the customs and practices of hunting and gathering societies to understand human history better.
Examples
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The hunting and gathering society moved frequently to find food, following the seasons and animal migrations.
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In every human hunting-and-gathering society about which we have information, mothers allow others to hold newborns.
Academic text (2009) -
Eliade (1958a) concludes from his study of the history of comparative religions that a Supreme Being of the Sky existed among most archaic hunting and gathering societies.
Academic text (1990) -
This attempt to delineate their space, according to some archaeologists, was an outgrowth of moving from a roving, hunting-and-gathering society to a sedentary, agricultural one, a process that began in Central Europe about 700 to 800 years before the construction of the enclosures.
Academic text (2006) -
In a typical hunting and gathering society, people rely on the resources available in nature for their survival.
Synonyms
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A group of people who live by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants
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Surface Forms
Morphology
hunting + and + gather + society
The phrase literally combines 'hunting' + 'and' + 'gathering' with 'society', so its meaning — a society whose subsistence is based on hunting animals and gathering wild plants — is directly derivable from the constituent words. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows straightforward noun-noun/coordination composition, so a B1 learner who knows the parts would readily understand it.
Etymology
Hunting and gathering society comes from a simple picture: people who get food by hunting animals and gathering wild plants. They often moved from place to place with the seasons, so the phrase now means 'a group of people who live by hunting and gathering'.