Encapsulation, commercialisation, discrimination

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Encapsulation, commercialisation, discrimination

edited by Thomas Widlok and Wolde Gossa Tadesse

(Property and equality, v. 2)

Berghahn Books, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Originally published: 2005

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Description

The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number of fields and has gained sophistication as well as momentum. This collection of essays on "property and equality" acknowledges this diversification by presenting research results in two complementary volumes. They bring together a wide range of authoritative researchers most of whom have worked with hunter-gatherer groups. These two volumes cover existing ethnographic and theoretical ground while maintaining a clear focus on the relation between property and equality. The book consists of the most recent work of prominent members of the original group of researchers in hunter-gatherer studies among them James Woodburn and Richard Lee, and very recent ethnography on hunter-gatherers and other egalitarian systems.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Wolde Gossa Tadesse Chapter 1. Power and Property in Twenty-First Century Foragers: A Critical Examination Richard Borshay Lee Chapter 2. Money Makes the World Go Round? Commodity Sharing, Gifting and Exchange in the Baka (Pygmy) Economy Axel Koehler Chapter 3. Whose Forest Is It Anyway? Mbendjele Yaka Pygmies, the Ndoki Forest and the Wider World Jerome Lewis Chapter 4. The Significance of Trade in an Immediate-Return Society: The Batek Case Kirk Endicott Chapter 5. The Road to Equality? Landscape Transformation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia Lye Tuck-Po Chapter 6. Equalising Processes, Processes of Discrimination and the Forest People of Central Africa Justin Kenrick Chapter 7. Delay, Return and Hierarchy: Six Aboriginal Marriage Systems Compared Ian Keen Chapter 8.8 The Power of Women in an Ostensibly Male-Dominated Agro-Pastoral Society Jean Lydall Chapter 9. The Incorporated Ground: The Contemporary Work of Distribution in the Kutubu Oil Project Area, Papua New Guinea James F. Weiner Chapter 10. Sharing the Land: Kalahari San Property Rights and Resource Management Robert K. Hitchcock Chapter 11. The Professionalisation and Commoditisation of the Contemporary Bushman Trance Dancer and Trance Dance, and the Decline of Sharing Mathias Guenther Chapter 12. From Humility to Lordship in Island Southeast Asia Thomas Gibson Notes on Contributors Index

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  • NCID
    BB04436155
  • ISBN
    • 1845452143
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 266 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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