Sedentarization

How it is used

Examine whether settlement was voluntary, negotiated or imposed; avoid presenting it as inevitable progress.

Example sentences

1. The study links sedentarization to changing access to grazing land.

   Settlement can reflect constraints on earlier mobile livelihoods.

2. Officials described sedentarization as a success, but petitions recorded resistance.

   Different sources can reveal conflicting experiences of settlement.

Common collocations

• forced sedentarization
• sedentarization policy

Related terms

• migrationThe movement of people from one place to another to live, either within a country or across borders, alone or in large groups.
• agrarianRelating to farming, land and the people who work it, or describing a society or economy based mainly on agriculture.

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• aristocracy
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