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The terminology of agricultural origins and food production systems—a horticultural perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Helen M. Leach
Helen M. Leach*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
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We live, most of us, in agricultural societies; our food comes from the farm. We make gardens, many of us, and we eat some of the plants that we grow there. That farming is not the same as gardening we see in the responses of western observers when they made contact with societies whose food came more from the garden than the farm. A gardener's view of food makes its own story.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997 , pp. 135 - 148
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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