Hunter-gatherers in a changing world / Victoria Reyes-García, Aili Pyhälä, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reyes-García, Victoria, editor.

Pyhälä, Aili, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting and gathering societies--Social conditions.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Hunting and gathering societies--Economic conditions.

Ethnoecology.

Acculturation.

Globalization--Environmental aspects.

Globalization.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 257 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

This book compiles a collection of case studies analysing drivers of and responses to change amongst contemporary hunter-gatherers. Contemporary hunter-gatherers' livelihoods are examined from perspectives ranging from historical legacy to environmental change, and from changes in national economic, political and legal systems tomore broad-scale and universal notions of globalization and acculturation. Far from the commonly held romantic view that hunter-gatherers continue to exist as isolated populations living a traditional lifestyle in harmony with the environment, contemporary hunter-gatherers - like many rural communities around the world - face a number of relatively new ecological and social challenges to which they are pressed to adapt. Contemporary hunter-gatherer societies are increasingly and rapidly being affected by Global Changes, related both to biophysical Earth systems (i.e., changes in climate, biodiversity and natural resources, and water availability), and to social systems (i.e. demographic transitions, sedentarisation, integration into the market economy, and all the socio-cultural change that these and other factors trigger).

Contents:

Part I. The historical legacy. 1. The fortunes of foragers in colonial and post-colonial New Guinea / Paul Roscoe ; 2. When is a foraging society? : the Loplik in the Tarim Basin / Sabira Ståhlberg and Ingvar Svanberg

Part II. Environmental change. 3. Trailing forest uses among the Punan Tubu of North Kalimantan, Indonesia / Maximilien Guèze and Lucentezza Napitupulu ; 4. Bushmeat crisis, forestry reforms and contemporary hunting among Central African forest hunters ; Mitsuo Ichikawa, Shiho Hattori, and Hirokazu Yasuoka ; 5. Defaunation through the eyes of the Tsimane' / Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Isabel Díaz-Reviriego, and Victoria Reyes-García ; 6. The death of the chief of peccaries : the Apurinã and the scarcity of forest resources in Brazilian Amazonia / Pirjo K. Virtanen

Part III. Changes in the world economy. 7. Why Pumé foragers retain a hunting and gathering way of life / Karen L. Kramer and Russell D. Greaves ; 8. Sharing in a context of rural development. A study among a contemporary hunter-gatherer society in Indonesia / Lucentezza Napitupulu, Maximilien Guèze, and Victoria Reyes-García ; 9. Hunter-gatherers and fishing rights in Alaska and Siberia : contemporary governmentality, subsistence, and sustainable enterprises / Thomas F. Thornton and Nadezhda Mamontova

Part IV. Globalization and cultural change. 10. Indigenous networks and evangelical frontiers : problems with governance and ethics in cases of 'voluntary isolation' in contemporary Amazonia / Marc Brightman and Vanessa Grotti ; 11. 'Like father, like son'? : Baka children's local ecological knowledge learning in a context of cultural change / Sandrine Gallois, Romain Duda, and Victoria Reyes-García ; 12. Persistence of infant care patterns among Aka foragers / Courtney L. Meehan, Edward H. Hagen, and Barry S. Hewlett ; 13. Globalized conflicts, globalized responses. Changing manners of contestation among indigenous communities / Petra Benyei, Nerea Turreira-Garcia, Martí Orta-Martínez, and Mar Cartró-Sabaté.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319422695

3319422693

OCLC:

951761551