Politics and History in Band Societies.

Abstract

Notes on the contributors Introduction Eleanor Leacock and Richard Lee Part I. Dynamics of Egalitarian Foraging Societies: 1. Political process in G/wi bands George Silberbauer 2. Politics, sexual and non-sexual in an egalitarian society Richard Lee 3. Risk, reciprocity and social influences on !Kung San economics Polly Wiessner 4. Descended from father, belonging to country: rights to land in the Australian Western Desert Annette Hamilton 5. Living dangerously: the contradictory foundations of value in Canadian Inuit society Jean L. Briggs 6. The ritualisation of potential conflict between the sexes among the Mbuti Colin M. Turnbull Part II. Forgager-farmer Relations: 7. Relations of production in band society Eleanor Leacock 8. The family, group structuring and trade among South Indian hunter-gatherers Brian Morris 9. Aka-famer relations in the northwest Congo Basin Serge Bahuchet and Henri Guillaume, translated by Sheila M. Van Wyck 10. Adaptive flexibility in a multi-ethnic setting: the Basarwa of the Southern Kalahari Helga I. D. Vierich 11. Patterns of sedentism among the Basarwa of eastern Botswana Robert K. Hitchcock 12. Nomads without cattle: East African foragers in historical perspective Cynthia Chang 13. In the land of milk and honey: Okiek adaptations to their forests and neighbours Roderic H. Blackburn Part III. Contemporary Political Struggles: 14. Utter savages of scientific value Renato Rosaldo 15. From foragers to fighters: South Africa's militarisation of the Namibian San Richard Lee and Susan Hurlich 16. Dene self-determination and the study of hunter-gatherers in the modern world Michael I. Asch 17. The future of hunters within nation-states: anthropology and the James Bay Cree Harvey A. Feit 18. Hydroelectric dam construction and the foraging activities of eastern Quebec Montagnais Paul Charest 19. The outstation movement in Aboriginal Australia H. C. Coombs, B. G. Dexter and L. R. Hiatt 20. Aboriginal land rights in the northern territory of Australia Nicholas Peterson 21. Political consciousness and land rights among the Australian Western Desert people Daniel A. Vachon Indexes.