The hunter-gatherers of southern Africa known as 'Bushmen' or 'San' are not one single ethnic group, but several. They speak a diverse variety of languages, and have many different settlement patterns, kinship systems and economic practices. The fact that we think of them as a u…
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Marking the Land investigates how hunter-gatherers use physical landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on the spaces they occupy. The land is full of meaning for hunter-gatherers. Much of that meaning is inherent in natural phenomena, but some of it com…
"This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languag…
This book challenges traditional perceptions of Australian Aboriginal prehistory. The natural environment has been seen as the major determinant of hunter-gatherers and Australian Aborigines have been understood to have been egalitarian and culturally homogeneous. Such an interp…
Papers presented at the symposium on Man the Hunter held at the Center for Continuing Education, University of Chicago, April 6-9, 1966 & sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; Includes; Part I; Introduction; 2. The current status of the worlds hun…
Papers presented at the symposium on Man the Hunter held at the Center for Continuing Education, University of Chicago, April 6-9, 1966 & sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; Includes; Part I; Introduction; 2. The current status of the worlds hun…
"For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived as small bands of hunter-gatherers in societies that appear to have solved problems of production, distribution, social equity, and environmental sustainability that our own culture seems incapable of addressing. L…
"For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived as small bands of hunter-gatherers in societies that appear to have solved problems of production, distribution, social equity, and environmental sustainability that our own culture seems incapable of addressing. L…
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