hunter-gatherer

English

Etymology

From hunter +‎ gatherer.

Noun

hunter-gatherer (plural hunter-gatherers)

1. A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.

   Coordinate term: pastoralist

   • 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 February 2012, page 162:

     He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

   • 2022 July 11, Virginia Hefferman, “Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans”, in Wired‎^[2]:

     […] Wengrow and Graeber argue that the life of hunter-gatherers before widespread farming was nothing like “the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory,” which hold that early humans lived in small bands in which they acted almost entirely on instinct, either brutish (as in Hobbes) or egalitarian and innocent (as in Rousseau).

Translations

person whose main food source is hunting and gathering

• Catalan: caçador-recol·lector m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狩獵採集者／狩猎采集者 (shòuliè cǎijí zhě), 狩獵採集民／狩猎采集民 (shòuliè cǎijí mín)

• Dutch: jager-verzamelaar (nl) m
• Finnish: metsästäjä-keräilijä (fi)
• French: chasseur-cueilleur (fr) m
• German: Jäger und Sammler m, Wild- und Feldbeuter m, Wildbeuter und Feldbeuter m (rare)
• Greek: κυνηγός-συλλέκτης m (kynigós-sylléktis), τροφοσυλλέκτης (el) m (trofosylléktis)
• Hungarian: vadászó-gyűjtögető
• Irish: fiagaí cnuasaitheoir m
• Italian: cacciatore-raccoglitore m
• Japanese: 狩猟採集民 (shuryō saishūmin)
• Korean: 수렵채집민(狩獵採集民) (suryeopchaejimmin)
• Polish: łowca-zbieracz m
• Portuguese: caçador-recoletor (pt) m, caçador-coletor m
• Romansch: chatschader e rimnader m
• Russian: охо́тник-собира́тель (ru) m (oxótnik-sobirátelʹ)
• Spanish: cazador-recolector m
• Thai: คนเก็บของป่าล่าสัตว์
• Welsh: heliwr-gasglwr m

References

• Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Unabridged, 1987.

Further reading

• hunter-gatherer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia