Politics and history in band societies /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1982. |
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| Description: | xiv, 500 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/472095 |
Table of Contents:
- Notes on the contributors
- Introduction
- Part I. Dynamics of Egalitarian Foraging Societies
- 1. Political process in G/wi bands
- 2. Politics, sexual and non-sexual in an egalitarian society
- 3. Risk, reciprocity and social influences on !Kung San economics
- 4. Descended from father, belonging to country: rights to land in the Australian Western Desert
- 5. Living dangerously: the contradictory foundations of value in Canadian Inuit society
- 6. The ritualisation of potential conflict between the sexes among the Mbuti
- Part II. Forgager-farmer Relations
- 7. Relations of production in band society
- 8. The family, group structuring and trade among South Indian hunter-gatherers
- 9. Aka-famer relations in the northwest Congo Basin
- 10. Adaptive flexibility in a multi-ethnic setting: the Basarwa of the Southern Kalahari
- 11. Patterns of sedentism among the Basarwa of eastern Botswana
- 12. Nomads without cattle: East African foragers in historical perspective
- 13. In the land of milk and honey: Okiek adaptations to their forests and neighbours
- Part III. Contemporary Political Struggles
- 14. Utter savages of scientific value
- 15. From foragers to fighters: South Africa's militarisation of the Namibian
- 16. Dene self-determination and the study of hunter-gatherers in the modern world
- 17. The future of hunters within nation-states: anthropology and the James Bay Cree
- 18. Hydroelectric dam construction and the foraging activities of eastern Quebec Montagnais
- 19. The outstation movement in Aboriginal Australia
- 20. Aboriginal land rights in the northern territory of Australia
- 21. Political consciousness and land rights among the Australian Western Desert people
- Indexes