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Politics and history in band societies

By Eleanor Leacock; Richard Lee

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press; Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme
Year
1982
ISBN
2735100197, 0521284120, 9780521284127
Language
englishfrench
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19194210 bytes)
Edition
paperback
Pages
500\524
Library
Internet Archive
Time added
2022-02-20 05:48:27

Description

The papers collected in this volume present important information on the history and culture of contemporary gathering and hunting peoples from Canada, India, Africa, Australia and the Philippines. The volume focuses on two themes: first, on the techniques which band-living foraging peoples employ to organise their social and economic lives; and second, on their fight for the right to their own lands and for a measure of cultural and political autonomy. The contributors maintain that gatherer-hunters are not examples of a disappearing way of life, but peoples who have maintained their social and economic practices through long periods of contact with stratified societies. The aim of this volume it to make known to as wide an audience as possible the daily lives, the patterns of relations between the sexes and the political orientations of the world's contemporary foragers.

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