英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈswɪdn̩/
• 韻: -ɪdən

名詞

swidden (plural swiddens)

1. An area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn.
   • 2007 Fall, F. L. (Rick) Bein, “Food Garden Capacity and Population Growth: A Case in Papua New Guinea.”, in Focus on Geography, volume 50, number 2, pages 28–33:

     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.

   • 2009 Jul/Aug, Roger Atwood, “Maya Roots”, in Archaeology, volume 62, number 4:

     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.

   • 2006 August, Guido Sprenger, “Out of the ashes: Swidden cultivation in highland Laos”, in Anthropology Today, volume 22, number 4, page 9:

     ‘Swidden’ has entered anthropological jargon, denoting not only a practice widespread in non-state societies, but also a problem.

動詞

swidden (third-person singular simple present swiddens, present participle swiddening, simple past and past participle swiddened)

1. To clear an area of land by cutting and burning.
   • 2009 February 13, Drake Bennett, quoting James Scott, “The mystery of Zomia”, in The Boston Globe‎, Boston:

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

派生語

• swiddener

参考

• burn-beat, slash and burn

参照

• Diamond, Jared (2004). Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, page 163. →ISBN.
• Sprenger, Guido. "Out of the ashes: Swidden cultivation in highland Laos." Anthropology Today 22.4 (August 2006), 9-13.
• Izikowitz, K.G. (1979 [orig. 1951]). Lamet: Hill peasants in French Indochina. New York: AMS Press.