Part 1 Property rights: property, practice and aboriginal rights among Quebec Cree hunters; burning the truck and holding the country - property, time and the negotiation of identity among Pintupi aborigines; rights to game and rights to cash among contemporary Australian hunter-gatherers; modes of exchange in north-west Alaska; property, power and conflict among the Barik of Malaysia. Part 2 Equality and domination: teaching social relations to Inuit children; ideology and domination in aboriginal Australia - a Western desert test case; meat sharing as a political ritual - forms of transaction versus modes of subsistence. Part 3 Symbols and representations: dry meat and gender - the absence of Chipewyan ritual for the regulation of hunting and animal numbers; animals in Bushman thought, myth and art; people of the eland - an archaeo-linguistic crux. Part 4 Power and ideology: the unending ceremony and a warm house - representation of a patriarchal ideal and the silent complementarity in Okiek blessings; maintaining cosmic unity - ideology and the reproduction of Yolngu clans; Yolngu religious property.
