ISBN:
978-0-8263-5696-3
,
978-0-8263-5697-0 /E-Book
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 338 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [115]
Keywords:
Anthropologie, soziale Jäger und Sammler
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Subsistenzwirtschaft
;
Wirtschaftlicher Wandel
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
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Wirtschaftsethnologie
;
Demographie
;
Australien
;
Afrika, Subsahara
;
San
;
Hadza
;
Südamerika
;
Nordafrika
;
Inuit
Abstract:
Foraging persists as a viable economic strategy both in remote regions and within the bounds of developed nation-states. Given the economic alternatives available, why do some groups choose to maintain their hunting and gathering lifeways? Through a series of detailed case studies, the contributors to this volume examine the decisions made by modern-day foragers to sustain a predominantly hunting and gathering way of life. What becomes clear is that hunter-gatherers continue to forage because the economic benefits of doing so are high relative to the local alternatives and, perhaps more importantly, because the social costs of not foraging are prohibitive; in other words, hunter-gatherers value the social networks built through foraging and sharing more than the potential marginal gains of a new means of subsistence. Why Forage? shows that hunting and gathering continues to be a viable and vibrant way of life even in the twenty-first century.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hunters and Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century, Karen L. Kramer and Brian F. Codding -- Chapter One: Diversify or Replace: What Happens to Wild Foods when Cultigens Are Introduced into Hunter-Gatherer Diets?, Karen L. Kramer and Russell D. Greaves -- Chapter Two: Inuit Culture: To Have and Have Not; or, Has Subsistence Become an Anachronism?, George W. Wenzel -- Chapter Three: "In the bush the food is free": The Ju/`hoansi of Tsumkwe in the Twenty-First Century, Richard B. Lee -- Chapter Four: Twenty-First-Century Hunting and Gathering among Western and Central Kalahari San, Robert K. Hitchcock and Maria Sapignoli -- Chapter Five: Why Do So Few Hadza Farm?, Nicholas Blurton Jones -- Chapter Six: In Pursuit of the Individual: Recent Economic Opportunities and the Persistence of Traditional Forager-Farmer Relationships in the Southwestern Central African Republic, Karen D. Lupo -- Chapter Seven: What Now? Big Game Hunting, Economic Change, and the Social Strategies of Bardi Men, James E. Coxworth -- Chapter Eight: Alternative Aboriginal Economies: Martu Livelihoods in the Twenty-First Century, Brian F. Codding, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas W. Bird, and David W. Zeanah -- Chapter Nine: Economic, Social, and Ecological Contexts of Hunting, Sharing, and Fire in the Western Desert of Australia, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Brian F. Codding, and Douglas W. Bird -- Appendix A: Cross-Cultural Demographic and Social Variables for Contemporary Foraging Populations -- Appendix B: Economic Activities of Twenty-First-Century Foraging Populations -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 263-319"School for Advanced Research advanced seminar 21st Century Hunting and Gathering: Foraging on a Transnational Landscape, [...] May 5-9, 2013." (Seite 320)Enthält eine Einführung und 9 Beiträge
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