Politics and History in Band SocietiesThe papers collected in this volume present important information on the history and culture of contemporary gathering and hunting peoples from Canada, India, Africa, Australia and the Philippines. The volume focuses on two themes: first, on the techniques which band-living foraging peoples employ to organise their social and economic lives; and second, on their fight for the right to their own lands and for a measure of cultural and political autonomy. The contributors maintain that gatherer-hunters are not examples of a disappearing way of life, but peoples who have maintained their social and economic practices through long periods of contact with stratified societies. The aim of this volume it to make known to as wide an audience as possible the daily lives, the patterns of relations between the sexes and the political orientations of the world's contemporary foragers. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Political process in Gwi bands | 23 |
Politics sexual and nonsexual in an egalitarian society | 37 |
Risk reciprocity and social influences on Kung San | 61 |
rights to land in | 85 |
ANNETTE HAMILTON | 108 |
The ritualization of potential conflict between the sexes | 133 |
Relations of production in band society | 159 |
East African foragers in historical | 269 |
Okiek adaptations to their | 283 |
Utter savages of scientific value | 309 |
South Africas militarization of | 327 |
Dene selfdetermination and the study of huntergatherers | 347 |
anthropology | 373 |
Hydroelectric dam construction and the foraging activities | 413 |
The outstation movement in Aboriginal Australia | 427 |
The family group structuring and trade among South Indian | 171 |
Akafarmer relations in the northwest Congo Basin | 189 |
the Basarwa | 213 |
Patterns of sedentism among the Basarwa of eastern Botswana | 223 |
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