Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance, and Self-determinationPeter P. Schweitzer, Megan Biesele, Robert K. Hitchcock Berghahn Books, 2000 - 498 Seiten In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy the ecological niches that are constantly eroded. Despite the denial of sovereignty, the world's more than 350 million indigenous peoples continue to assert aboriginal title to significant portions of the world's remaining bio-diversity. As a result, conflicts between tribal peoples and nation states are on the increase. Today, many of the societies that gave the field of anthropology its empirical foundations and unique global vision of a diverse and evolving humanity are being destroyed as a result of national economic, political, and military policies. Although quite a sizable body of literature exists on the living conditions of the hunters and gatherers, this volume is unique in that it represents the first extensive east-west scholarly exchange in anthropology since the demise of the USSR. Moreover, it also offers new perspectives from indigenous communities and scholars in an exchange that be termed "south-north" as opposed to " north-north," denoting the predominance of northern Europe and North America in scholarly debate. The main focus of this volume is on the internal dynamics and political strategies of hunting and gathering societies in areas of self-determination and self-representation. More specifically, it examines areas such as warfare and conflict resolution, resistance, identity and the state, demography and ecology, gender and representation, and world view and religion. It raises a large number of major issues of common concerns and therefore makes important reading for all those interested in human rights issues, ethnic conflict, grassroots development and community organization, and environmental topics. |
Inhalt
Russian 29 | 29 |
Visions of Conflict Conflicts of Vision among | 55 |
Warfare among the Hunters and Fishermen of | 77 |
Homicide and Aggression among the Agta of Eastern | 94 |
Conflict Management in a Modern Inuit Community | 110 |
Wars and Chiefs among the Samoyeds and Ugrians of | 125 |
Ritual Violence among the Peoples of Northeastern Siberia | 150 |
Patterns of War and Peace among Complex Hunter | 164 |
Dynamics of Adaptation to Market Economy among the | 275 |
Can HunterGatherers Live in Tropical Rain Forests? | 287 |
Impacts of the South | 305 |
Are They Dying Out? | 327 |
Gender Role Transformation among Australian Aborigines | 343 |
Haiom Naming Practices | 361 |
Central African Governments and International NGOs | 380 |
Hudhud | 399 |
Economic | 192 |
Political Movement Legal Reformation and Transformation | 206 |
Identity Ecology | 223 |
Marginality with a Difference or How the Huaorani | 244 |
Interest in the Present in the Nationwide Monetary | 263 |
Exposing Historical Processes in | 413 |
Cosmology and | 427 |
Materials | 455 |
Notes on Contributors | 475 |
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