Ethnicity Hunter Gatherers And The Other

Author : Susan Kent
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1935623451
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity, Hunter-Gatherers, and the "Other" written by Susan Kent and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world continues to shrink owing to globalization, the need to understand the diversity of culturally distinct societies and their interactions with neighboring groups becomes greater than ever. Susan Kent has invited an international team of experts to present their insights into how one type of society, African hunter-gatherers, has managed to survive long past the first contact between foragers, farmers, and pastoralists. The contributors explore many issues, including culture change, trade, tribute, inter-group relations, autonomy, dependence, and differential contact histories and rates of change. They consider why the association of hunter-gatherers with non-hunter-gatherers has sometimes led to trade between autonomous societies and in other cases has led to assimilation. Ethnicity, Hunter-Gatherers, and the "Other" illuminates both past and present foraging societies by presenting new data and reinterpreting previously collected data within the framework of inter-group interactions.

Author : Henry Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self- and Other-images of Hunter-gatherers written by Henry Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel H. Temple
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107187354
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience written by Daniel H. Temple and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the variety of ways in which hunter-gatherer societies have responded to external stressors while maintaining their core identity.

Author : Peter P. Schweitzer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571811011
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World written by Peter P. Schweitzer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of negotiations now going on between people who rely on wild plants and animals and the governments of their territories about civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights, anthropologists explore dimensions of culture and pressures as they are manifested in particular peoples. Their 27 papers, from an August 1993 conference in Moscow, Russian, cover warfare and conflict resolution; resistance, identity, and the state; ecology, demography, and market issues; gender and representation; and world-view and religious determination. The examples come from most of the world's continents. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Barry S. Hewlett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351514113
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin written by Barry S. Hewlett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forest foragers of the Congo Basin, known collectively as "Pygmies," are the largest and most diverse group of active hunter-gatherers remaining in the world. At least fifteen different ethno-linguistic groups exist in the Congo Basin with a total population of 250,000 to 350,000 individuals. Extensive knowledge about these groups has accumulated in the last forty years, but readers have been forced to piece together what is known from many sources. French, Japanese, American, and British researchers have conducted the majority of the research; each national research group has its own academic traditions, history, and publications. Here, leading academic authorities from diverse national traditions summarize recent research on forest hunter-gatherers. The volume explores the diversity and uniformity of Congo Basin hunter-gatherer life by providing detailed but accessible overviews of recent research. It represents the first book in over twenty-five years to provide a comprehensive and holistic overview of African forest hunter-gatherers. Chapters discuss the cultural variation in characteristic features of Congo Basin hunter-gatherer life, such as their yodeled polyphonic music, pronounced egalitarianism, multiple-child caregiving, and complex relations with neighboring farming groups. Other contributors address theoretical issues, such as why Pygmies are short, how tropical forest hunter-gatherers live without the carbohydrates they receive from neighboring farmers, and how hunter-gatherer children learn to share so extensively.

Author : Vicki Cummings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000189538
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers written by Vicki Cummings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a basic introduction to key debates in the study of hunter-gatherers, specifically from an anthropological perspective, but designed for an archaeological audience. Hunter-gatherers have been the focus of intense anthropological research and discussion over the last hundred years, and as such there is an enormous literature on communities all over the world. Yet, among the diverse range of peoples studied, there are a number of recurrent themes, including not only the way in which people make a living (hunting, gathering and fishing) but also striking similarities in other areas of life such as belief systems and social organisation. These themes are described and then explored through archaeological case-studies. The overarching theme throughout the volume is the use of ethnographic analogy, and how archaeologists should be critical in its use.

Author : Catherine Panter-Brick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521776721
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunter-Gatherers written by Catherine Panter-Brick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 volume is an interdisciplinary text on hunter-gatherer populations world-wide.

Author : Peter Veth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137533
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Peoples written by Peter Veth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies. Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the core deserts of Africa Examines the key concepts vital to understanding human adaptation to marginal landscapes and the behavioral and belief systems that underpin them Explores the relationship among desert hunter-gatherers, herders, and pastoralists

Author : Robert L. Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107355095
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers written by Robert L. Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.

Author : Bill Finlayson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 178570589X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diversity of Hunter Gatherer Pasts written by Bill Finlayson and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought provoking collection of new research papers explores the extent of variation amongst hunting and gathering peoples past and present and the considerable analytical challenges presented by this diversity. This problem is especially important in archaeology, where increasing empirical evidence illustrates ways of life that are not easily encompassed within the range of variation recognized in the contemporary world of surviving hunter-gatherers. Put simply, how do past hunter-gatherers fit into our understandings of hunter-gatherers? Furthermore, given the inevitable archaeological reliance on analogy, it is important to ask whether conceptions of hunter-gatherers based on contemporary societies restrict our comprehension of past diversity and of how this changes over the long term. Discussion of hunter-gatherers shows them to be varied and flexible, but modeling of contemporary hunter-gatherers has not only reduced them into essential categories, but has also portrayed them as static and without history. It is often said that the study of hunter-gatherers can provide insight into past forms of social organization and behavior; unfortunately too often it has limited our understandings of these societies. In contrast, contributors here explore past hunter-gather diversity over time and space to provide critical perspectives on general models of ‘hunter-gatherers’ and attempt to provide new perspectives on hunter-gatherer societies from the greater diversity present in the past.