Hunters and Gatherers: v. 1

Hunters and gatherers and outsiders; hunters and gatherers and other people - a re-examination; African hunter-gatherer social organization - is it best understood as a product of encapsulation? free or doomed? images of the Hadzabe hunters and gatherers of Tanzania; flux, sedentism and change; the complexities of residential organization among the Efe (Mbuti) and the Bagombi (Baka) - a critical view of the notion of flux in hunter-gatherer societies; pressures for Tamil propriety in Paliyan social organization; tributary tradition and relations of affinity and gender among the Sumatran Kubu; foraging, starch extraction and the sedentary lifestyle in the lowland rainforest of central Seram; historical and evolutionary transformations; at the frontier - some arguments against hunter-gathering and farming modes of production in southern Africa, palaeopolitics - resource intensification in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea; politics and production among the Calusa of south Florida; hunters and gatherers of the sea; theoretical and comparative approaches; hominids, humans and hunter-gatherers - an evolutionary perspective; risk and uncertainty in the "original affluent society" - evolutionary ecology of resource-sharing and land tenure; reflections on primitve communism; notes on the foraging mode of production.