Kamiali Village is a community of swidden horticulturists and fishers lying 80 kilometers in a south-southeasterly direction along the coast from the City of Lae, Papua New Guinea.
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Swidden
//ˈswɪdn̩//
Synonyms for "swidden" (1 found)
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19 translations across 14 languages.
Breton
1 entries- devadur noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
Catalan
1 entries- artiga noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
Czech
1 entries- žďár noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
Dutch
1 entries- swidden noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
Esperanto
1 entries- brulsarki verb (Translations)
Estonian
1 entries- ale noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
Finnish
3 entries- kaski noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
- kytö noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
- kulottaa verb (Translations)
French
1 entries- brûlis noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
Galician
2 entries- cachada noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
- roza noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
German
2 entries- Brandfeld noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
- Schwende noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
Italian
1 entries- debbio noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
Polish
2 entries- cyrhla noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
- cyrhlić verb (Translations)
Spanish
1 entries- artiga noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
Swedish
1 entries- sved noun (area cleared and burnt for cultivation)
Sample sentences
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These facts reinforced the view that the Maya drew their basic sustenance from corn, most of it grown on slash-and-burn plots known as swiddens.
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‘Swidden’ has entered anthropological jargon, denoting not only a practice widespread in non-state societies, but also a problem.
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The reason, Scott says, is that swiddening provides a freedom that fixed agriculture does not.
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