Farmers, Pastoralists, and Culture

Both the following article and the following video will explore the

physical geography

that

couples with the

socioeconomic

and

cultural

life of farmers and nomadic pastoralists.

Reflect on

each

of these aspect:

1.

physical geography, 2. socioeconomics, and 3. culture

for

both

groups of people, and respond to the following question:

—What is common between

each aspect

of farmers in India and each aspect of nomadic

pastoralists in the Zomia region?

—What is distinctly different?

Article on eLearn:

Shifting cultivation and its effects in regarding of perspective in Northern India BY

PARAG KR. DEKA AND DINESH SARMAH

Video on YouTube:

Building a border at 4,600 meters – Vox

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