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Hunters and gatherers in the modern world : conflict, resistance, and self-determination

Author: Peter P Schweitzer; Megan Biesele; Robert K Hitchcock
Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2000.
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This volume represents the first east-west scholarly exchange in anthropology since the demise of the USSR. It also offers new perspectives from indigenous communities and scholars which emphasizes the position of the South world.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hunters and gatherers in the modern world.
New York : Berghahn Books, 2000
(OCoLC)606310339
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Peter P Schweitzer; Megan Biesele; Robert K Hitchcock
ISBN: 157181101X 9781571811011 1571811028 9781571811028
OCLC Number: 40073946
Description: xii, 498 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Robert K. Hitchcock, Megan Biesele --
Silence and Other Misunderstandings: Russian Anthropology, Western Hunter-Gatherer Debates, and Siberian Peoples / Peter P. Schweitzer --
Warfare and Conflict Resolution --
Visions of Conflict, Conflicts of Vision among Contemporary Dene Tha / Jean-Guy A. Goulet --
Warfare among the Hunters and Fishermen of Western Siberia / Liudmila A. Chindina --
Homicide and Aggression among the Agta of Eastern Luzon, the Philippines, 1910-1985 / Marcus B. Griffin --
Conflict Management in a Modern Inuit Community / Jean L. Briggs --
Wars and Chiefs among the Samoyeds and Ugrians of Western Siberia / Andrei V. Golovnev --
Ritual Violence among the Peoples of Northeastern Siberia / Elena P. Batianova --
Patterns of War and Peace among Complex Hunter-Gatherers: The Case of the Northwest Coast of North America / Leland Donald --
Resistance, Identity, and the State --
The Concept of an International Ethnoecological Refuge / Olga Murashko --
Aboriginal Responses to Mining in Australia: Economic Aspirations, Cultural Revival, and the Politics of Indigenous Protest / David S. Trigger --
Political Movement, Legal Reformation, and Transformation of Ainu Identity / Takashi Irimoto --
Tracking the "Wild Tungus" in Taimyr: Identity, Ecology, and Mobile Economies in Arctic Siberia / David G. Anderson --
Marginality with a Difference, or How the Huaorani Preserve Their Sharing Relations and Naturalize Outside Powers / Laura Rival --
Ecology, Demography, and Market Issues.
Other Titles: Hunters & gatherers in the modern world
Responsibility: edited by Peter P. Schweitzer, Megan Biesele, and Robert K. Hitchcock.

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This volume represents the first east-west scholarly exchange in anthropology since the demise of the USSR. It also offers new perspectives from indigenous communities and scholars which emphasizes the position of the South world.

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