Politics And History In Band Societies
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| Author | : Richard Lee |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 524 |
| Release | : 1982-09-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521240635 |
The papers collected in this volume present important information on the history and culture of contemporary gathering and hunting peoples from Canada, India, Africa, Australia and the Philippines. The volume focuses on two themes: first, on the techniques which band-living foraging peoples employ to organise their social and economic lives; and second, on their fight for the right to their own lands and for a measure of cultural and political autonomy. The contributors maintain that gatherer-hunters are not examples of a disappearing way of life, but peoples who have maintained their social and economic practices through long periods of contact with stratified societies. The aim of this volume it to make known to as wide an audience as possible the daily lives, the patterns of relations between the sexes and the political orientations of the world's contemporary foragers.
| Author | : Steadman Upham |
| Publisher | : CUP Archive |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1990-09-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521382526 |
| Author | : Bobbi S. Low |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2015-01-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 069116388X |
Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics, to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so, but that sometimes cooperation and collaboration are the most effective ways to succeed. This newly revised edition has been thoroughly updated to include the latest research and reflect exciting changes in the field, including how our evolutionary past continues to affect our ecological present.
| Author | : Jonathan Haas |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1990-07-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521380423 |
The book brings together a group of authors who are addressing the nature and causes of warfare in simpler, tribal societies. The authors represent a range of different opinions about why humans engage in warfare, why wars start, and the role of war in human evolution. Warfare in cultures from several different world areas is considered, ranging over the Amazon, the Caribbean, the Andes, the Southwestern United States, Southeast Asia, Polynesia, and Malaysia. To explain the origins and maintenance of war in tribal societies, different authors appeal to a broad spectrum of demographic, environmental, historical and biological variables. Competing explanatory models of warfare are presented head to head, with overlapping bodies of data offered in support of each.
| Author | : Gordon Morris Bakken |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780815334620 |
| Author | : Marvin Harris |
| Publisher | : Temple University Press |
| Total Pages | : 648 |
| Release | : 2009-01-28 |
| Genre | : Cooking |
| ISBN | : 9781439901038 |
An unprecedented interdisciplinary effort suggests that there is a systematic theory behind why humans eat what they eat.
| Author | : Tim Ingold |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2024-11-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1040287581 |
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. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America and reflect theoretically on the hunter-gatherer condition.Volume 1: Hunters and Gatherers - History, Evolution and Social ChangeVolume II: Hunters and Gatherers - Property, Power and Ideology
| Author | : James Silverberg |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 1992-03-19 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0195361237 |
This book explores the role of aggression in primate social systems and its implications for human behavior. Many people look to primate studies to see if and how we might be able to predict violent behavior in humans, or ultimately to control war. Of particular interest in the study of primate aggression are questions such as: how do primates use aggression to maintain social organization; what are the costs of aggression; why do some primates avoid aggressive behavior altogether. Students and researchers in primatology, behavioral biology, anthropology, and psychology will read with interest as the editors and contributors to this book address these and other basic research questions about aggression. They bring new information to the topic as well as an integrated view of aggression that combines important evolutionary considerations with developmental, sociological and cultural perspectives.
| Author | : Linda J. Ellanna |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2020-08-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000323064 |
Hunter-gatherer research has experienced enormous expansion over the past three decades. In the late 1950s less than a score of anthropologists were actively engaged in issue-oriented studies of foraging populations. Since then, the number of active researchers has grown into the hundreds.This book offers the most up-to-date anthology of papers on hunter-gatherer research and contains possibly the most comprehensive bibliography on hunter-gatherers ever published. It will be essential reading for all students of hunter-gatherer societies.
| Author | : C. C. Schweitzer |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 1995-07-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1782388591 |
This revised and enlarged edition brings the successful original volume of 1984 right up to date, taking into account the most recent developments. Each section begins with an introduction that provides the context for the following documents. There is no comparable volume of its kind available in English, and most documents have not previously been translated.
