Sentence examples for primitive subsistence from inspiring English sources
When a volcano erupts, as it did in Tristan da Cunha in 1961, the islanders are evacuated to England where they're forced to shift from a primitive subsistence economy to industrial capitalism virtually overnight.
The primitive subsistence economy that in past centuries had nourished a large population of poor peasants was being eroded by new factors, notably the development of large estates owned by magnates enriched in the imperialist wars and devoted to cash crops worked by slaves and day labourers.
In the beginning, I was fascinated by how the rural part of this area preserved their traditions and their way of primitive subsistence farming.
Independently, Landry (76) described the demographic revolution characterized by three demographic regimes: primitive regime associated with subsistence economies constraining mortality reduction, intermediate regime with fertility decline due to late marriage and celibacy, and modern regime where fertility is an object of conscious limitation.
Cattle theft has been considered to be an unconventional means of primitive accumulation of herds in the contexts of subsistence and commercial pastoralism (Blench 2004).
In his "original affluent society" theory, Sahlins shifted the anthropological view of hunter-gatherers from primitive savages to practitioners of refined modes of subsistence.
But it also kept the nation mired in a primitive isolation that left the bulk of its people living at little above subsistence level and under the jackboots of a vicious internal security apparatus.
Subsistence farms usually consist of no more than a few acres, and farm technology tends to be primitive and of low yield.
This primitive community of fowlers and fishermen was the least integrated of British island peoples, one that had never risen above subsistence living or seen a telephone.
Villagers were subsistence farmers.
