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Chapter 2: Making A Living By John Barker
Chapter 2, Making A Living, is an in depth chapter that describes the way of living and how the Maisin people function through everyday life. In this chapter John Barker describes; how the Maisin gather materials, what they use for tools, how they manufacture clothing, the roles of men, women, and children in their society, how they get food and the process of hunting and gathering, the rights and ownership of land/gardens and ownership of crops, Maisin marriage and families, their spiritual beliefs, and the introduction of western society/technology to their world and their reaction to new technology.

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