{"product_id":"politics-and-history-in-band-societies-paperback-9780521284127","title":"Politics and History in Band Societies (Paperback) 9780521284127","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePolitics and History in Band Societies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume explores the patterns of relations between the sexes and the political orientations of the world's contemporary foragers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEleanor  Leacock (Edited by), Richard Lee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521284127, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 September 1982\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e516 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.75 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNotes on the contributors\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Eleanor Leacock and Richard Lee\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Dynamics of Egalitarian Foraging Societies: 1. Political process in G\/wi bands George Silberbauer\u003cbr\u003e 2. Politics, sexual and non-sexual in an egalitarian society Richard Lee\u003cbr\u003e 3. Risk, reciprocity and social influences on !Kung San economics Polly Wiessner\u003cbr\u003e 4. Descended from father, belonging to country: rights to land in the Australian Western Desert Annette Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e 5. Living dangerously: the contradictory foundations of value in Canadian Inuit society Jean L. Briggs\u003cbr\u003e 6. The ritualisation of potential conflict between the sexes among the Mbuti Colin M. Turnbull\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Forgager-farmer Relations: 7. Relations of production in band society Eleanor Leacock\u003cbr\u003e 8. The family, group structuring and trade among South Indian hunter-gatherers Brian Morris\u003cbr\u003e 9. Aka-famer relations in the northwest Congo Basin Serge Bahuchet and Henri Guillaume, translated by Sheila M. Van Wyck\u003cbr\u003e 10. Adaptive flexibility in a multi-ethnic setting: the Basarwa of the Southern Kalahari Helga I. D. Vierich\u003cbr\u003e 11. Patterns of sedentism among the Basarwa of eastern Botswana Robert K. Hitchcock\u003cbr\u003e 12. Nomads without cattle: East African foragers in historical perspective Cynthia Chang\u003cbr\u003e 13. In the land of milk and honey: Okiek adaptations to their forests and neighbours Roderic H. Blackburn\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Contemporary Political Struggles: 14. Utter savages of scientific value Renato Rosaldo\u003cbr\u003e 15. From foragers to fighters: South Africa's militarisation of the Namibian San Richard Lee and Susan Hurlich\u003cbr\u003e 16. Dene self-determination and the study of hunter-gatherers in the modern world Michael I. Asch\u003cbr\u003e 17. The future of hunters within nation-states: anthropology and the James Bay Cree Harvey A. Feit\u003cbr\u003e 18. Hydroelectric dam construction and the foraging activities of eastern Quebec Montagnais Paul Charest\u003cbr\u003e 19. The outstation movement in Aboriginal Australia H. C. Coombs, B. G. Dexter and L. R. Hiatt\u003cbr\u003e 20. Aboriginal land rights in the northern territory of Australia Nicholas Peterson\u003cbr\u003e 21. Political consciousness and land rights among the Australian Western Desert people Daniel A. Vachon\u003cbr\u003e Indexes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46297191186712,"sku":"9780521284127","price":45.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/politics-and-history-in-band-societies-paperback-9780521284127","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}