Hunters and Gatherers: v. 2
Berg Publishers
Published in December 1988
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-85496-155-9 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of papers given at a conference in London to mark the 20th anniversary of the "Man the Hunter" Symposium. The two volumes resulting from this conference present new information on the structure and evolution of hunter-gatherer societies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations, maps, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85496-155-9 (9780854961559)
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Persons
Editor
Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews
Department of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics
Content
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.