Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance, and Self-Determination / Edition 1 available in Hardcover, Paperback
Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance, and Self-Determination / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 157181101X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781571811011
- Pub. Date:
- 04/01/2000
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books
- ISBN-10:
- 157181101X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781571811011
- Pub. Date:
- 04/01/2000
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books
Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance, and Self-Determination / Edition 1
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Although quite a sizable body of literature exists on the living conditions of the hunters and gatherers, this volume is unique in that it represents the first extensive east-west scholarly exchange in anthropology since the demise of the USSR. Moreover, it also offers new perspectives from indigenous communities and scholars in an exchange that be termed "south-north" as opposed to " north-north," denoting the predominance of northern Europe and North America in scholarly debate.
The main focus of this volume is on the internal dynamics and political strategies of hunting and gathering societies in areas of self-determination and self-representation. More specifically, it examines areas such as warfare and conflict resolution, resistance, identity and the state, demography and ecology, gender and representation, and world view and religion. It raises a large number of major issues of common concerns and therefore makes important reading for all those interested in human rights issues, ethnic conflict, grassroots development and community organization, and environmental topics.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781571811011 |
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Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Publication date: | 04/01/2000 |
Pages: | 512 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) |
Lexile: | 1370L (what's this?) |
About the Author
Megan Biesele is President, School of Expressive Culture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. She helped found the Kalahari Peoples Fund in 1973 and currently serves as its Coordinator.
Robert H. Hitchcock is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Anthropology Department, as well as the coordinator of African Studies, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is involved in research and development project monitoring, evacuation, and implementation, primarily in southern and eastern Africa and North America.
Peter P. Schweitzer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology, Cultural, and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations PrefaceIntroduction Robert K. Hitchcock and Megan Biesele
Chapter 1. Silence and Other Misunderstandings: Russian Anthropology, Western Hunter-Gatherer Debates, and Siberian Peoples Peter P. Schweitzer
PART I: WARFARE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Chapter 2. Visions of Conflict, Conflicts of Vision among Contemporary Dene Tha Jean-Guy A. Goulet
Chapter 3. Warfare among the Hunters and Fishermen of Western Siberia Liudmila A. Chindina
Chapter 4. Homicide and Aggression among the Agta of Eastern Luzon, the Philippines, 1910–1985 Marcus B. Griffin
Chapter 5. Conflict Management in a Modern Inuit Community Jean L. Briggs
Chapter 6. Wars and Chiefs among the Samoyeds and Ugrians of Western Siberia Andrei V. Golovnev
Chapter 7. Ritual Violence among the Peoples of Northeastern Siberia Elena P. Batianova
Chapter 8. Patterns of War and Peace among Complex Hunter-Gatherers: The Case of the Northwest Coast of North America Leland Donald
PART II: RESISTANCE, IDENTITY AND THE STATE
Chapter 9. The Concept of an International Ethnoecological Refuge Olga Murashko
Chapter 10. Aboriginal Responses to Mining in Australia: Economic Aspirations, Cultural Revival, and the Politics of Indigenous Protest David S. Trigger
Chapter 11. Political Movement, Legal Reformation, and Transformation of Ainu Identity Takashi Irimoto
Chapter 12. Tracking the “Wild Tungus” in Taimyr: Identity, Ecology, and Mobile Economies in Arctic Siberia David G. Anderson
Chapter 13. Marginality with a Difference, or How the Huaorani Preserve Their Sharing Relations and Naturalize Outside Powers Laura Rival
PART III: ECOLOGY, DEMOGRAPHY, AND MARKET ISSUES
Chapter 14. “Interest in the Present” in the Nationwide Monetary Economy: The Case of Mbuti Hunters in Zaire Mitsuo Ichikawa
Chapter 15. Dynamics of Adaptation to Market Economy among the Ayoréode of Northwest Paraguay Volker von Bremen
Chapter 16. Can Hunter-Gatherers Live in Tropical Rain Forests? The Pleistocene Island Melanesian Evidence Matthew Spriggs
Chapter 17. The Ju/’hoansi San under Two States: Impacts of the South West African Administration and the Government of the Republic of Namibia Megan Biesele and Robert K. Hitchcock
Chapter 18. Russia’s Northern Indigenous Peoples: Are They Dying Out? Dmitrii D. Bogoiavlenskii
PART IV: GENDER AND REPRESENTATION
Chapter 19. Gender Role Transformation among Australian Aborigines Robert Tonkinson
Chapter 20. Names That Escape the State: Hai//om Naming Practicesc versus Domination and Isolation Thomas Widlok
Chapter 21. Central African Government’s and International NGOs’ Perceptions of Baka Pygmy Development Barry S. Hewlett
Chapter 22. The Role of Women in Mansi Society Elena G. Fedorova
Chapter 23. Peacemaking Ideology in a Headhunting Society: Hudhud, Women’s Epic of the Ifugao Maria V. Staniukovich
PART V: WORLD-VIEW AND RELIGIOUS DETERMINATION
Chapter 24. Painting as Politics: Exposing Historical Processes in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art Thomas A. Dowson
Chapter 25. Gifts from the Immortal Ancestors: Cosmology and Ideology of Jahai Sharing Cornelia M. I. van der Sluys
Chapter 26. Time in the Traditional World-View of the Kets: Materials on the Bear Cult Evgeniia A. Alekseenko
Chapter 27. Lexicon as a Source for Understanding Sel’kup Knowledge of Religion Alexandra A. Kim
Notes on Contributors
Appendix: A Note on the Spelling of Siberian Ethnonyms
Index