Hunter-gatherers in a changing world /

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Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL) Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books. Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subject:	Hunting and gathering societies. Hunting and gathering societies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12331010

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Other authors / contributors:	Pyhälä, Aili, editor. Reyes-García, Victoria, editor.
ISBN:	9783319422718 3319422715 9783319422695 3319422693
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 7, 2017).
Summary:	This book compiles a collection of case studies analysing drivers of and responses to change amongst contemporary hunter-gatherers. Contemporary hunter-gatherers' livelihoods are examined from perspectives ranging from historical legacy to environmental change, and from changes in national economic, political and legal systems to more broad-scale and universal notions of globalization and acculturation. Far from the commonly held romantic view that hunter-gatherers continue to exist as isolated populations living a traditional lifestyle in harmony with the environment, contemporary hunter-gatherers - like many rural communities around the world - face a number of relatively new ecological and social challenges to which they are pressed to adapt. Contemporary hunter-gatherer societies are increasingly and rapidly being affected by Global Changes, related both to biophysical Earth systems (i.e., changes in climate, biodiversity and natural resources, and water availability), and to social systems (i.e. demographic transitions, sedentarisation, integration into the market economy, and all the socio-cultural change that these and other factors trigger).
Other form:	Print version: 9783319422695 3319422693
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-319-42271-8

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Hunter-Gatherers in a Fast Changing World
Part I: The Historical Legacy
1. The Fortunes of Foragers in Colonial and Post-Colonial New Guinea
2. When is a Foraging Society? The Loplik in the Tarim Basin
Part II: Environmental Change
3. Trailing Forest Uses Among the Punan Tubu of North Kalimantan, Indonesia
4. Bushmeat Crisis, Forestry Reforms and Contemporary Hunting Among Central African Forest Hunters
5. Defaunation Through the Eyes of the Tsimane'
6. The Death of the Chief of Peccaries: The Apurinã and the Scarcity of Forest Resources in Brazilian Amazonia
Part III: Changes in Economic, Political and Legal Systems
7. Why Pumé Foragers Retain a Hunting and Gathering Way of Life on a Transitional Landscape
8. Sharing in a Context of Rural Development. A Study Among a Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Society in Indonesia
9. Hunter-Gatherers and Fishing Rights in Alaska and Siberia: Contemporary Governmentality, Subsistence, and Sustainable Enterprises
Part IV: Globalization and Cultural Change
10. Indigenous Networks and Evangelical Frontiers: Problems with Governance Ethics in Cases of 'Voluntary Isolation' in Contemporary Amazonia
11. 'Like Father, Like Son'? Baka Children's Local Ecological Knowledge Learning in a Context of Cultural Change
12. Persistence and Change in Infant Care among Aka Foragers
13. Globalized Conflicts, Globalized Responses. Changing Manners of Contestation Among Indigenous Communities.

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