Hunters and gatherers in the modern world : conflict, resistance, and self-determination / edited by Peter P. Schweitzer, Megan Biesele, and Robert K. Hitchcock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schweitzer, Peter P., editor.

Biesele, Megan, editor.

Hitchcock, Robert K., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting and gathering societies--Political aspects.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Hunting and gathering societies--Government policy.

Indigenous peoples--Politics and government.

Indigenous peoples.

Culture conflict.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2000.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy the ecological niches that are constantly eroded. Despite the denial of sovereignty, the world's more than 350 million indigenous peoples continue to assert aboriginal title to significant portions of the world's remaining bio-diversity. As a result, conflicts between tribal peoples and nation states are on the increase. Today, many of the societies that gave the field of anthropology its empirical foundations and unique global vision of a diverse and evolving humanity are being destroyed as a result of national economic, political, and military policies. Although quite a sizable body of literature exists on the living conditions of the hunters and gatherers, this volume is unique in that it represents the first extensive east-west scholarly exchange in anthropology since the demise of the USSR. Moreover, it also offers new perspectives from indigenous communities and scholars in an exchange that be termed "south-north" as opposed to " north-north," denoting the predominance of northern Europe and North America in scholarly debate. The main focus of this volume is on the internal dynamics and political strategies of hunting and gathering societies in areas of self-determination and self-representation. More specifically, it examines areas such as warfare and conflict resolution, resistance, identity and the state, demography and ecology, gender and representation, and world view and religion. It raises a large number of major issues of common concerns and therefore makes important reading for all those interested in human rights issues, ethnic conflict, grassroots development and community organization, and environmental topics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

1. Silence and Other Misunderstandings: Russian Anthropology, Western Hunter-Gatherer Debates, and Siberian Peoples

I. Warfare and Conflict Resolution

2. Visions of Conflict, Conflicts of Vision among Contemporary Dene Tha

3. Warfare among the Hunters and Fishermen of Western Siberia

4. Homicide and Aggression among the Agta of Eastern Luzon, the Philippines, 1910–1985

5. Conflict Management in a Modern Inuit Community

6. Wars and Chiefs among the Samoyeds and Ugrians of 125 Western Siberia

7. Ritual Violence among the Peoples of Northeastern Siberia

8. Patterns of War and Peace among Complex Hunter- Gatherers: The Case of the Northwest Coast of North America

II. Resistance, Identity, and the State

9. The Concept of an International Ethnoecological Refuge

10. Aboriginal Responses to Mining in Australia: Economic Aspirations, Cultural Revival, and the Politics of Indigenous Protest

11. Political Movement, Legal Reformation, and Transformation of Ainu Identity

12. Tracking the “Wild Tungus” in Taimyr: Identity, Ecology, and Mobile Economies in Arctic Siberia

13. Marginality with a Difference, or How the Huaorani Preserve Their Sharing Relations and Naturalize Outside Powers

III. Ecology, Demography, and Market Issues

14. “Interest in the Present” in the Nationwide Monetary Economy: The Case of Mbuti Hunters in Zaire

15. Dynamics of Adaptation to Market Economy among the Ayoréode of Northwest Paraguay

16. Can Hunter-Gatherers Live in Tropical Rain Forests? The Pleistocene Island Melanesian Evidence

17. The Ju/’hoansi San under Two States: Impacts of the South West African Administration and the Government of the Republic of Namibia

18. Russia’s Northern Indigenous Peoples: Are They Dying Out?

IV. Gender and Representation

19. Gender Role Transformation among Australian Aborigines

20. Names That Escape the State: Hai//om Naming Practices versus Domination and Isolation

21. Central African Government’s and International NGOs’ Perceptions of Baka Pygmy Development

22. The Role of Women in Mansi Society

23. Peacemaking Ideology in a Headhunting Society: Hudhud, Women’s Epic of the Ifugao

V. World-View and Religious Determination

24. Painting as Politics: Exposing Historical Processes in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art

25. Gifts from the Immortal Ancestors: Cosmology and Ideology of Jahai Sharing

26. Time in the Traditional World-View of the Kets: Materials on the Bear Cult

27. Lexicon as a Source for Understanding Sel’kup Knowledge of Religion

Notes on Contributors

Appendix: A Note on the Spelling of Siberian Ethnonyms

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781571811011

157181101X

9781782381587

1782381589

OCLC:

1290091974