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List of contents
Preface 1. Twenty years of history, evolution and social change in gatherer-hunter studies Part 1 Hunters and gatherers and outsiders 2. Hunters and gatherers and other people – a re-examination 3. African hunter-gatherer social organization: is it best understood as a product of encapsulation? 4. Free or doomed? Images of the Hadzabe hunters and gatherers of Tanzania Part 2 Flux, sedentism and change 5. The complexities of residential organization among the Efe (Mbuti) and the Bagombi (Baka): a critical view of the notion of flux in hunter-gatherer societies 6. Pressures for Tamil propriety in Paliyan social Organization 7. Tributary tradition and relations of affinity and gender 8. Foraging, starch extraction and the sedentary lifestyle in the lowland rainforest of central Seram Part 3 Historical and evolutionary transformations 9. At the frontier: some arguments against hunter-gathering and farming modes of production in southern Africa 10. Palaeopolitics: resource intensification in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea 11. Politics and production among the Calusa of south Florida 12. Hunters and gatherers of the sea Part 4 Theoretical and Comparative Approaches 13. Hominids, humans and hunter-gatherers: an evolutionary perspective 14. Risk and uncertainty in the 'original affluent society': evolutionary ecology of resource-sharing and land tenure 15. Reflections on primitive communism 16. Notes on the foraging mode of production
Summary
All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation.
