Man the HunterMan the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists generally have been reappraising the basic concepts of descent, fi liation, residence, and group structure. This book presents new data on hunters and clarifi es a series of conceptual issues among social anthropologists as a necessary background to broader discussions with archaeologists, biologists, and students of human evolution. |
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Contents
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What Hunters Do for a Living or How To Make Out on Scarce Resources | 31 |
An Introduction to Hadza Ecology | 50 |
Coping with Abundance Subsistence on the Northwest Coast | 57 |
Subsistence and Ecology of Northern Food Gatherers with Special Reference to the Ainu | 70 |
The Netsilik Eskimos Adaptive Processes | 79 |
Demographic and Ecological Influences on Aboriginal Australian Marriage Sections | 186 |
Australian Marriage LandOwning Groups and Initiations | 201 |
Discussions Part IV | 210 |
Comments and Rejoinder | 211 |
c The Use of Misuse of Models | 213 |
A NonAustralian Example | 217 |
Epidemiological Factors Health and Disease in HunterGatherers | 222 |
Some Predictions for the Pleistocene Based on Equilibrium Systems among Recent HunterGatherers | 230 |
Discussions Part II | 84 |
b Notes on the Original Affluent Society | 86 |
c Does Hunting Bring Happiness? | 90 |
d Hunting vs Gathering as Factors in Subsistence | 93 |
e Measuring Resources and Subsistence Strategy | 95 |
Ownership and Use of Land among the Australian Aborigines | 100 |
Stability and Flexibility in Hadza Residential Groupings | 104 |
The Diversity of Eskimo Societies | 112 |
The Nature of Dogrib Socioterritorial Groups | 119 |
The Birhor of India and Some Comments on Band Organization | 127 |
The Importance of Flux in Two Hunting Societies | 133 |
Southeastern Australia Level of Social Organization | 139 |
Discussions Part III | 147 |
b The Problem of Lineage Organization | 150 |
c Analysis of Group Composition | 151 |
d Social Determinants of Group Size | 156 |
e Resolving Conflicts by Fission | 157 |
g Predation and Warfare | 158 |
Some Problems of Method | 159 |
A Shoshoni Example | 162 |
Gidjingali Marriage Arrangements | 166 |
Marriage Classes and Demography in Central Australia | 177 |
Discussions Part V | 242 |
Infanticide Disease Nutrition and Food Supply | 244 |
Determinants of Group Size in Modern and Pleistocene Hunters | 246 |
d Pleistocene Family Planning | 249 |
Traces of Pleistocene Hunters An East African Example | 254 |
A Theoretical Framework for Interpreting Archeological Materials | 263 |
Methodological Considerations of the Archeological Use of Ethnographic Data | 269 |
Ethnographic Data and Understanding the Pleistocene | 275 |
Studies of HunterGatherers as an Aid to the Interpretation of Prehistoric Societies | 277 |
Discussions Part VI | 282 |
b The Archeological Visibility of Food Gatherers | 286 |
c The Use of Ethnography in Reconstructing the Past | 288 |
The Evolution of Hunting | 294 |
Hunting An Integrating Biobehavior System and Its Evolutionary Importance | 305 |
Causal Factors and Processes in the Evolution of Prefarming Societies | 322 |
Discussions Part VII | 336 |
b Primate Behavior and the Evolution of Aggression | 340 |
c Future Agenda | 345 |
The Concept of Primitiveness | 350 |
References | 354 |
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