In addition to engaging in a vibrant internal rotating marketing system and integrated household livelihood systems that include a wide variety of crops, livestock, and harvesting of fruit, lumber and charcoal from trees, rural Haitians everywhere also exhibit what anthropologists refer to as ‘occupational multiplicity’, meaning a surfeit of specialties, such as housebuilding tasks like mason, carpenter, and roofer, professional sawyers, tailors, or weavers, masseuses, prayer specialists, or midwives. Some specialize in hunting birds, foraging for vines, roof-thatch or grass. Figure 1 below and Table 1 provide some data on occupational multiplicity from a 451 household survey conducted in 2018 the Grand Anse by Socio-Dig and on behalf of HEKS-EPER, a Swiss NGO.
