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Subsistence

The means by which an individual or community sustains itself, historically and contemporarily.

Calories

Units of energy that are important for measuring the energy content in food.

Nutrients

Substances that provide nourishment essential for the maintenance of life and for growth.

Horticulture

The art or practice of garden cultivation and management.

Farming

The activity of growing crops and raising livestock.

Agriculture

The science or practice of farming, including the cultivation of the soil for growing crops and the rearing of animals.

Immediate provision

Access to resources that are available right away.

Delayed provision

Access to resources that require waiting or cultivation over time.

Provisioning

The act of supplying with food, equipment, or other essentials.

Foodways

The cultural, social, and economic practices related to the production and consumption of food.

Resource acquisition

The process of obtaining resources needed for survival and development.

Return Systems

Methods or patterns through which resources are gained back after initial investment.

Foraging

The act of searching for and gathering wild food resources.

Morality

Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.

Ethics

Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or conducting an activity.

Rights

Legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement.

Power

The capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others.

Power-knowledge

The idea that knowledge is interconnected with power and is used to control ways of thinking.

State

A defined political entity with a centralized government.

Nation-States

A political entity characterized by a defined territory and a stable population governed by its own political system.

Egalitarian

Relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights.

Ranked

A social hierarchy where individuals are organized based on status or power.

Stratified

Social structures that are divided into hierarchies of authority or class.

Sodalities

Formal associations usually based on social, political, or religious ties.

Chiefdom

A form of hierarchical political organization led by a chief.

Territorial power

Control over a specific geographical area and its resources.

Caste

A social class system that limits social mobility based on hereditary status.

Class

A system of ordering society wherein people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status.

Elites

Groups of people with a superior intellectual, social, or economic status.

Geopolitics

The study of the effects of geography on international politics and international relations.

Ideology

A system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

Hegemony

Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others.

Biopolitics

A form of politics that governs individuals through the regulation of life and biological processes.

Microbiopolitics

The governance of life at the smallest biological levels.

Nutricentrism

A focus on nutrition as the central aspect of health and wellbeing.

Power subjectification

The process by which individuals become subjects of power systems.

Power objects

Items or entities that represent or are embedded with power dynamics.

Power flows

The movement and distribution of power within social structures.

Politics

The activities associated with the governance of a country or area.

Religion

A system of beliefs that often involves a code of ethics and philosophical worldview.

Cosmology

The science of the origin and development of the universe.

Collective beliefs

Shared beliefs held by a group of individuals.

Superpowers

Nations with the ability to exert influence or project power on a global scale.

Totalising explanatory models

Comprehensive frameworks aiming to explain the entirety of a phenomenon.

Natural

Associated with the physical world, as opposed to the supernatural.

Supernatural

Pertaining to phenomena that are beyond the laws of nature.

Cosmopolitics

Engaging with political matters on a global scale, considering various cultures and perspectives.

Human-animal relations

Interactions and relationships between humans and non-human animals.

Environment vs ecology

Environment refers to surroundings where organisms live; ecology is the study of relationships between organisms and their environment.

Cultural ecology

The study of how human cultures adapt to their environments.

Ethnoecology

The study of the relationship between cultural beliefs and practices and the ecosystems they inhabit.

Society

A community of individuals living together and sharing customs, laws, and organization.

Species

A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes.

Multispecies anthropology

The study of interactions and relations across multiple species.

Speciesism

Discrimination against certain species based on the idea that humans are superior.

Political ecology

The study of how political, economic, and social factors affect environmental issues.

Ecology

The branch of biology that deals with the relationships of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.

Ecosystem

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

Pole sorting

The categorization of entities or systems based on specific criteria.

Fungal communities

Ecosystems formed by fungi and their interactions with other organisms.

Cheese cultures

Microbial populations used in the production of cheese.

Nuclear borderlands

Areas impacted by nuclear technologies and their sociopolitical implications.