History, evolution and social change
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History, evolution and social change
（Explorations in anthropology, . Hunters and gatherers ; 1）
Berg , Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1988
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"The Fourth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies took place ... at the London School of Economics and Political Science, from Monday 8 to Saturday 13 September 1986"--P. 1
Bibliography: p. 286-314
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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A collection of papers given at a conference in London to mark the 20th anniversary of the "Man the Hunter" Symposium. The two volumes resulting from this conference present new information on the structure and evolution of hunter-gatherer societies.
Table of Contents
- Hunters and gatherers and outsiders
- hunters and gatherers and other people - a re-examination
- African hunter-gatherer social organization - is it best understood as a product of encapsulation? free or doomed? images of the Hadzabe hunters and gatherers of Tanzania
- flux, sedentism and change
- 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
- pressures for Tamil propriety in Paliyan social organization
- tributary tradition and relations of affinity and gender among the Sumatran Kubu
- foraging, starch extraction and the sedentary lifestyle in the lowland rainforest of central Seram
- historical and evolutionary transformations
- at the frontier - some arguments against hunter-gathering and farming modes of production in southern Africa, palaeopolitics - resource intensification in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea
- politics and production among the Calusa of south Florida
- hunters and gatherers of the sea
- theoretical and comparative approaches
- hominids, humans and hunter-gatherers - an evolutionary perspective
- risk and uncertainty in the "original affluent society" - evolutionary ecology of resource-sharing and land tenure
- reflections on primitve communism
- notes on the foraging mode of production.
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