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Hunter-Gatherers and Human Evolution: New Light on Old Debates
In: Annual review of anthropology, Volume 47, Issue 1, p. 513-531
ISSN: 1545-4290
One of the most persistent debates in anthropology and related disciplines has been over the relative weight of aggression and competition versus nonaggression and cooperation as drivers of human behavioral evolution. The literature on hunting and gathering societies—past and present—has played a prominent role in these debates. This review compares recent literature from both sides of the argument and evaluates how accurately various authors use or misuse the ethnographic and archaeological research on hunters and gatherers. Whereas some theories provide a very poor fit with the hunter-gatherer evidence, others build their arguments around a much fuller range of the available data. The latter make a convincing case for models of human evolution that place at their center cooperative breeding and child-rearing, as well as management of conflict, flexible land tenure, and balanced gender relations.
Introduction: Foragers to First Peoples: The Kalahari San Today
In: Cultural Survival quarterly: world report on the rights of indigenous people and ethnic minorities, Volume 26, Issue 1, p. 8-12
ISSN: 0740-3291
Situation Reports: Progress or Poverty? The Dobe Ju'hoansi
In: Cultural Survival quarterly: world report on the rights of indigenous people and ethnic minorities, Volume 26, Issue 1, p. 15-16
ISSN: 0740-3291
Anthropology at the crossroads: From the age of ethnography to the age of World systems
In: Social dynamics: SD ; a journal of the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Volume 24, Issue 1, p. 34-65
ISSN: 1940-7874
Art, Science, or Politics? The Crisis in Hunter‐Gatherer Studies
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 94, Issue 1, p. 31-54
ISSN: 1548-1433
In the complex history of hunter‐gatherer studies, several overlapping and at times antagonistic discourses can be discerned. However, one critique has emerged that would render all hunter‐gatherer discourses irrelevant and do away with the concept altogether. The paper explores the poststructuralist roots of this "revisionism" and then argues why the concept of hunter‐gatherer continues to be politically relevant and empirically valid. However, if they are to fulfill their promise of illuminating an increasingly fragmented and alienating modernity, hunter‐gatherer studies will have to become more attuned to issues of politics, history, context, and reflexivity.
Archaeology: Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology. Lewis R. Binford
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 82, Issue 3, p. 632-633
ISSN: 1548-1433
Bushmen and other Non‐Bantu Peoples of Angola: Three Lectures ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 69, Issue 5, p. 526-527
ISSN: 1548-1433
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: The Mbuti Pygmies: An Ethnographic Survey. Colin M. Turnbull
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 69, Issue 2, p. 243-244
ISSN: 1548-1433
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Report to the Government of Bechuanaland on the Bushman Survey. George B. Silberbauer
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 68, Issue 4, p. 1040-1043
ISSN: 1548-1433