All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America and reflect theoretically on the hunter-gatherer condition. Volume I takes a close look that the history, evolution and social change of hunter-gatherers, while Volume II looks at their property, power, and ideology. Together they offer a thorough overview, perfect for Social Anthropology courses.
All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America and reflect theoretically on the hunter-gatherer condition. Volume I takes a close look that the history, evolution and social change of hunter-gatherers, while Volume II looks at their property, power, and ideology. Together they offer a thorough overview, perfect for Social Anthropology courses.
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Preface
1. Twenty years of history, evolution and social change in
gatherer-hunter studies Part 1 Hunters and gatherers and outsiders
2. Hunters
and gatherers and other people a re-examination
3. African hunter-gatherer
social organization: is it best understood as a product of encapsulation?
4.
Free or doomed? Images of the Hadzabe hunters and gatherers of Tanzania Part
2 Flux, sedentism and change
5. The complexities of residential organization
among the Efe (Mbuti) and the Bagombi (Baka): a critical view of the notion
of flux in hunter-gatherer societies
6. Pressures for Tamil propriety in
Paliyan social Organization
7. Tributary tradition and relations of affinity
and gender
8. Foraging, starch extraction and the sedentary lifestyle in the
lowland rainforest of central Seram Part 3 Historical and evolutionary
transformations
9. At the frontier: some arguments against hunter-gathering
and farming modes of production in southern Africa
10. Palaeopolitics:
resource intensification in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea
11.
Politics and production among the Calusa of south Florida
12. Hunters and
gatherers of the sea Part 4 Theoretical and Comparative Approaches
13.
Hominids, humans and hunter-gatherers: an evolutionary perspective
14. Risk
and uncertainty in the 'original affluent society': evolutionary ecology of
resource-sharing and land tenure
15. Reflections on primitive communism
16.
Notes on the foraging mode of production
Tim Ingold Department of Social Anthropology,University of Manchester Riches David Riches Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews James Woodburn Department of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics
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