swidden

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn.

   “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.”

2. fiil To clear an area of land by cutting and burning.

   “The reason, Scott says, is that swiddening provides a freedom that fixed agriculture does not.”