Vol. 7 · No. 2 · 2003

Soheila Shahshahani

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Introduction: The Junction of Two Modes of Subsistence

Anthropologists can engage in research on human culture anywhere human beings live or have lived.Making paradigms helps create boundaries for research. Subsistence of various kinds is one of the ways of limiting a unit of research. This does not mean that should the people of one subsistence group move to another,they should not be studied. This very movement and the period of adaptation are very rich ground for cultural studies. This in itself can become the focus of attention.