Man the Hunter

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Preface Contents PART I: Introduction 1. Problems in the Study of Hunters and Gatherers by RICHARD B. LEE AND IRVEN DEVORE 2. The Current Status of the World's Hunting and Gathering Peoples by GEORGE PETER MURDOCK PART II: Ecology and Economics 3. The "Hunting" Economies of the Tropical Forest Zone of South America: An Attempt at Historical Perspective by DONALD W. LATHRAP 4. What Hunters Do for a Living, or, How to Make Out on Scarce Resources by RICHARD B. LEE 5. An Introduction to Hadza Ecology by JAMES WOODBURN 6. Coping with Abundance: Subsistence on the Northwest Coast by WAYNE SUTTLES 7. Subsistence and Ecology of Northern Food Gatherers with Special Reference to the Ainu HITOSHI WATANABE 8. The Netsilik Eskimos: Adaptive Processes by ASEN BALIKCI 9. Discussions, Part II 9a. THE CENTRAL ESKIMO: A MARGINAL CASE ? Speakers: Balikci, Damas, Eggan, Helm, Washburn. 9b. NOTES ON THE ORIGINAL AFFLUENT SOCIETY Speaker: Sahlins 9c. DOES HUNTING BRING HAPPINESS? Speakers: A lland, L. Binford , Crocker, Helm, Hiatt, Marshall, Owen, Suttles, Turnbull, Williams, Woodburn. 9d. HUNTING VS. GATHERING AS FACTORS IN SUBSISTENCE Speakers: Alland, Bicchieri, L. Binford, Lathrap, Laughlin, R. Lee, Marshall, Struever, Washburn 9e. MEASURING RESOURCES AND SUBSISTENCE STRATEGY Speakers: Alland, L. Binford, Birdsell, Deevey, Eggan, Gardner, Sahlins. PART III: Social and Territorial Organization 10. Ownership and Use of Land among the Australian Aborigines by L. R. HIATT 11. Stability and Flexibility in Hadza Residential Groupings by JAMES WOODBURN 12. The Diversity of Eskimo Societies by DAVID DAMAS 13. The Nature of Dogrib Socioterritorial Groups by JUNE HELM 14. The Birhor of India and Some Comments on Band Organization by B. J. WILLIAMS 15. The Importance of Flux in Two Hunting Societies by COLIN M. TURNBULL 16. Southeastern Australia: Level of Social Organization by ARNOLD R. PILLING 17. Discussions, Part III 17a. ON ETHNOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION Speakers: Birdsell, Gardner, Hiatt, R. Lee, Jovleggitt, Rose, Williams, Woodburn 17b. THE PROBLEM OF LINEAGE ORGANIZATION Speakers : Damas, Deetz, Sinha, Williams 17c. ANALYSIS OF GROUP COMPOSITION Speakers: Anderson, Balikci, Helm , Laughlin , R. Lee, Marshall, Slobodin, Woodburn 17d. SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF GROUP SIZE Speakers: L. Binford, Helm, Williams, Woodburn 17e. RESOLVING CONFLICTS BY FISSION Speakers: Hamburg, Hiatt, Turnbull, Woodburn 17f. TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES Speakers: Hiatt, R. Lee, Pilling 17g. PREDATION AND WARFARE Speakers: Chagnon, Hiatt, R. Lee, Owen, Pilling, Woodburn 17h. HUNTER SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: SOME PROBLEMS OF METHOD Speaker: Sharp 17i. TYPOLOGY AND RECONSTRUCTION: A SHOSHONI EXAMPLE Speakers : Eggan, Hiatt PART IV: Marriage and Models in Australia 18. Gidjingali Marriage Arrangements by L. R. HIATT 19. "Marriage Classes" and Demography in Central Australia by M. J. MEGGITT 20. Demographic and Ecological Influences on Aboriginal Australian Marriage Sections by ARAM A. YENGOYAN 21. Australian Marriage, Land-Owning Groups, and Initiations FREDERICK G. G. ROSE 22. Discussions, Part IV 22a. GERONTOCRACY AND POLYGYNY Speakers: Bicchieri, Bulmer, Gardner, Isaac, Pilling, Rose, Slobodin, Whiting, Woodburn 22b. GIDJINGALI MARRIAGE ARRANGEMENTS : COMMENTS AND REJOINDER [Note: This exchange of correspondence between Levi-Strauss and Hiatt was received by the editors after the symposium on Man the Hunter.] 22c. THE USE AND MISUSE OF MODELS Speakers: Alland, Helm, Lathrap, Laughlin, Levi-Strauss, Meggitt, Pilling, Schieifdin, Sharp, Whiting. 22d. STATISTICS OF KIN MARRIAGE: A NON-AUSTRALIAN EXAMPLE Speaker: Helm PART V: Demography and Population Ecology 23. Epidemiologi cal Factors: Health and Disease in Hunter-Gatherers by FREDERICK L. DUNN 24. Some Predictions for the Pleistocene Based on Equilibrium Systems among Recent Hunter-Gatherers by JOSEPH B. BIRDSELL Discussions, Part V 25a. THE DEMOGRAPHY OF HUNTERS: AN ESKIMO EXAMPLE Speaker: Laughlin 25b. POPULATION CONTROL FACTORS: INFANTICIDE, DISEASE, NUTRITION, AND FOOD SUPPLY Speakers: Alland, Birdsell, Deevey, Isaac, Turnbull, Washburn, Williams, Woodburn 25c. THE MAGIC NUMBERS "25" AND "500": DETERMINANTS OF GROUP SIZE IN MODERN AND PLEISTOCENE HUNTERS Speakers: L. Binford, Birdsell, Damas, Freeman, Hiatt, Sahlins, Washburn 25d. PLEISTOCENE FAMILY PLANNING Speakers: Deevey, Whiting PART VI: Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers 26. Traces of Pleistocene Hunters An East African Example by GLYNN L. ISAAC 27. A Theoretical Framework for Interpreting Archeological Materials by L. G . FREEMAN, JR. 28. Methodological Considerations of the Archeological Use of Ethnographic Data by LEWIS R. BINFORD 29. Ethnographic Data and Understanding the Pleistocene by SALLY R. BINFORD 30. Studies of Hunter-Gatherers as an Aid to the Interpretation of Prehistoric Societies by J. DESMOND CLARK 31. Discussions, Part VI 31a. HUNTERS IN ARCHEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Speaker: Deetz 31b. ARCHEOLOGICAL VISIBILITY OF FOOD-GATHERERS Speakers: L. Binford, Clark , Deevey, Owen, Pilling, Sackett, Strueuer, Suttles, Washburn 31c. THE USE OF ETHNOGRAPHY IN RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST Speakers: Clark, DeVore, Howell, Sharp, Turnbull PART VII: Hunting and Human Evolution 32. The Evolution of Hunting by SHERWOOD L. WASHBURN AND C. S. LANCASTER 33. Hunting: An Integrating Biobehavior System and Its Evolutionary Importance by WILLIAM S. LAUGHLIN 34. Causal Factors and Processes in the Evolution of Pre-farming Societies by JULIAN H. STEWARD 35. Discussions, Part VII 35a. ARE THE HUNTER-GATHERERS A CULTURAL TYPE? Speakers: DeVore, Murdock, Whiting 35b. PRIMATE BEHAVIOR AND THE EVOLUTION OF AGGRESSION Speakers: L. Biriford, DeVore, Freeman, Gardner, Hamburg, Schneider, Turnbull, Washburn , Williams, Woodburn 35c. FUTURE AGENDA Speakers: Bulmer, Condominas, Levi-Strauss, Posnansky, Tax, Watanabe, Woodburn PART VIII: The Concept of Primitiveness 36. The Concept of Primitiveness by CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS References Index