ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses subsistence hunting (where hunting is necessary for physical human survival), and notes some reasons that have been offered for relying on hunting for food by people in industrialized societies for whom food insecurity is not an issue. It then discusses subsistence cultures among many indigenous peoples. It argues that practices associated with hunting, foraging, fishing, and gathering in subsistence cultures are connected to and shape a people’s metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and day-to-day living.
