- and
burning of
plants in a
forest or
woodland to
create a
field called a
swidden. The
method begins by
cutting down the
trees and
woody plants in an area...
- rice is the main crop. Rice
cultivation occurs in
swiddens (cleared
portions of the forest).
Swiddens are
usually cultivated for a few years, then the...
-
methods of food production. It was
believed that
shifting cultivation (
swidden)
agriculture provided most of
their food, but it is now
thought that permanent...
- (Darby 1956, 200).
Swidden farming was
practised in
Siberia at
least until the 1930s,
using specially selected varieties of "
swidden-rye" (Steensberg 1993...
- Maleu-Kilenge, is an
Austronesian language spoken by
several thousand swidden farmers in the
Talasea District of West New
Britain Province,
Papua New...
- fires, acid rain,
invasive species, and the
slash and burn
practices of
swidden agriculture or
shifting cultivation. The loss and re-growth of forests...
-
political economy would have been a
mixture of
hunting and
gathering and
swidden or
shifting agriculture.
Speculative planting of wet rice may have taken...
- and
traders who have
become emergent swidden sedentists Arao, Maleng, Malang, Makang, Tơe, Ahoe, Phóng
Swidden cultivators who move
every 2–3
years among...
- subject–verb–object
structure order. The
people that
speak this
language are
swidden agriculturalists.
There is very
little data
available for this language...
- Kaulong, or Pasismanua, is an
Austronesian language spoken by
about 4000
swidden farmers of the
southwest hinterlands of
Kandrian District, West New Britain...
