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Hunter-Gatherer Ethnography

Firsthand ethnographic accounts and studies of hunter-gatherer peoples — how they live, organize, and relate to their environments.

63 works

Ben-Dor M (2013)

Use of animal fat as a symbol of health in traditional societies suggests humans may be well adapted to its consumption

Journal of Evolution and Health: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 10.

Ben-Dor M, Gopher A, Hershkovitz I, Barkai R (2011)

Man the fat hunter: the demise of Homo erectus and the emergence of a new hominin lineage in the Middle Pleistocene (ca. 400 kyr) Levant

PLoS ONE, December 2011, Vol 6, Issue 12:e28689.

Bird-David N (1990)

The giving environment: Another perspective on the economic system of gatherer-hunters

Current Anthropology 31(2):189-196.

Bird-David N (2017)

Us, relatives: scaling and plural life in a forager world

Oakland: University of California Press.

Boehm C (1993)

Egalitarian behavior and reverse dominance hierarchy

Current Anthropology 34:227-54.

Boehm C (1999a)

Hierarchy in the forest: the evolution of egalitarian behavior

Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA.

Campbell PD (1999)

Survival skills of Native California

Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith.

Diamond S (1974)

In search of the primitive: a critique of civilization

London: Transaction Publishers.

Everett DL (2008)

Don't sleep, there are snakes: life and language in the Amazonian jungle

New York: Vintage Books.

Fienup-Riordian A (2007)

Yuungnaqpiallerput/the way we genuinely live: Yup'ik masterworks of science and survival

University of Washington Press.

Finnegan M (2013)

The politics of Eros: ritual dialogue and egalitarianism in three Central African hunter-gatherer societies

The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19:4, 697-715.

Fortier J (2014)

Regional hunter-gatherer traditions in South-East Asia

In Cummings V, Jordan P, & Zvelebil M (eds) The Oxford handbook of the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 1010-1030.

Fortier J & Goldstein PS (2017)

Hunter-gatherers in sub-tropical Asia: valid and invalid comparisons

In Warren G & Finlayson B (eds) The diversity of hunter-gatherer pasts. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books: 163-184.

Gardner P (1991)

Foragers' pursuit of individual autonomy

Current Anthropology 32: 547-549.

Gowdy J (2021b)

Hunter gatherers and the crisis of civilization

Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Volume LV, June 2021: 35-54.

Griffin PB (1991)

Philippine Agta forager-serfs: commodities and exploitation

Senri Ethnological Studies 30:199-222.

Gurven M & Kaplan H (2007)

Longevity among hunter-gatherers: a cross-cultural examination

Population and Development Review, 33(2), 321-365.

Harris M (2001)

Cultural materialism: the struggle for a science of culture (updated edition)

Walnut Creek, Lanham, New York, Oxford: Altamira Press.

Hayden B (1994)

Competition, labor, and complex hunter-gatherers

In Burch ES & Ellana LJ (eds) Key issues in hunter-gatherer research. Oxford: Berg: 223-239.

Hayden B (2004)

Sociopolitical organization in the Natufian: a view from the Northwest

In Delage C (ed), The last hunter-gatherers in the Near East. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1320, 2004. Oxford: Hadrian Books. Pp 263-308.

Hewlett BS & Lamb ME (2005)

Hunter-gatherer childhoods: evolutionary, developmental and cultural perspectives

New Brunswick, NJ: Aldine.

Hitchcock RK, Kelly MC, and Sapignoli M (2022)

Living under threat: practicing hunting and gathering in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve

Talk given at the 13th International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies. Dublin, Ireland: June 2022.

Ingold T (1999)

On the social relations of the hunter-gatherer band

In Lee RB & Daly R (Eds) The Cambridge encyclopedia of hunters and gatherers. Cambridge University Press, pg. 399-410.

Ingold T (2000)

The perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling, and skill

London and New York: Routledge.

Jones A (2010)

The plants that we eat: nauriat niginaqtaut

University of Alaska Press.

Kaplan H et al (2017)

Coronary atherosclerosis in indigenous South American Tsimane: a cross-sectional cohort study

Lancet. 2017 Apr 29;389(10080):1730-1739.

Kaplan H, Hill K, Lancaster J, Hurtado AM (2000)

A theory of human life history evolution: Diet, intelligence, and longevity

Evolutionary Anthropology 9(4): 156–185.

Kim HL, Ratan A, Perry G, Montenegro A, Miller W, and Schuster S (2014)

Khoisan hunter-gatherers have been the largest population throughout most of modern demographic history

Nature Communications 5:6692.

Kiunguro TE (2020)

Bushmen of Africa: Hadzabe hunter-gatherers

Arusha, Tanzania: Tobias Eginah Publications.

Leacock E (1998)

Women's status in egalitarian society: implications for social evolution

In Gowdy J (ed) Limited wants, unlimited means: a reader on hunter-gatherer economics and the environment. Washington DC: Island Press, pp. 139-164. [Originally published 1983].

Lee RB (1979)

The !Kung San: men, women, and work in a foraging society

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lee RB (1998)

Non-capitalist work: Baseline for an anthropology of work or romantic delusion?

Anthropology of Work Review, XVIII, 9-13.

Lewis J (2002)

Forest hunter-gatherers and their world

PhD dissertation, London: University of London.

Lewis JD (2014)

Egalitarian social organizations: the case of the Mbendjele BaYaka

In Hewlett BS (ed) Hunter-gatherers of the Congo Basin. New Brunswick NJ: Transaction: 219-43.

Lye TP (2005)

Changing pathways: forest degradation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia

Petaling Jaya: SIRD.

Marlowe FW (2010)

The Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.

Martin L (1999)

ID compensation theory: some implications of trying to satisfy immediate-return needs in a delayed-return culture

Psychological Inquiry 10(3):195-208.

Martin L & Shirk S (2007)

Immediate-return societies: what can they tell us about the self and social relationships in our society?

Wood JV, Tesser A, Holmes JG 2007 (eds). The self and social relationships. 1st Edition. Imprint Psychology Press.

Moise RE (2014)

'Do Pygmies have a history' revisited: the autochthonus tradition in the history of Equatorial Africa

In Hewlett BS (ed) Hunter-gatherers of the Congo Basin. New Brunswick NJ: Transaction: 85-116.

Morris B (2013)

Anarchism, individualism, and South Indian foragers: memories and reflections

Journal of Radical Anthropology (7):22-37.

Murdock GP (1981)

Atlas of world cultures

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Narvaez D (2021)

Indigenous self-actualization is communal: individualism is not our species' heritage and can misdirect development

Psychology Today, October 31, 2021.

Politis GG & Hernando A (2014)

Regional hunter-gatherer research traditions: South America

In Cummings V, Jordan P, & Zvelebil M (eds). The Oxford handbook of the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 1030-1053.

Prasetijo A (2020)

Orang Rimba, true custodian of the rainforest: alternative strategies and actions in social movement against hegemony

Jakarta: Indonesian Center for Sustainable Development.

Riede F (2009)

Climate change, demography and social relations: an alternative view of the Late Paleolithic pioneer colonization of southern Scandinavia

In McCartan S, Schulting R, Warren G, Woodman P (eds) Mesolithic Horizons Vol 1. Oxbow Books, 3-10.

Robinson A & Tormey S (2012)

Beyond the state: anthropology and “actually-existing anarchism”

Critique of Anthropology 32 (2): 143–57.

Sellato B (1994)

Nomads of the Borneo rainforest: the economics, politics, and ideology of settling down

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Singh M & Glowacki L (2022)

Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model

Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 43, Issue 5, September 2022:418-431.

Sorenson ER (1976)

The edge of the forest: land, childhood and change in a New Guinea protoagricultural society

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Sorenson ER (1979)

Early tactile communication and the patterning of human organization: a New Guinea case study

In Bullowa M (ed.). Before speech: the beginning of interpersonal communication. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 289-305.

Sorenson ER (1998a)

Preconquest consciousness

In Wautischer H (Ed). Tribal epistemologies. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 79-115.

Speth JD (2010)

The paleoanthropology and archaeology of big-game hunting: protein, fat, or politics?

New York: Springer Science & Business Media.

Stewart H (1977)

Indian fishing: early methods on the Northwest coast

University of Washington Press.

Ströhle A & Hahn A (2011)

Diets of modern hunter-gatherers vary substantially in their carbohydrate content depending on ecoenvironments: results from an ethnographic analysis

Nutrition.

Suzman J (2017)

Affluence without abundance: what we can learn from the world's most successful civilization

London & New York: Bloomsbury.

Turnbull CM (1983)

The human cycle

New York: Simon & Schuster.

Warren G & Finlayson B (eds) (2017)

The diversity of hunter-gatherer pasts

Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books.

Whyte MK (1978)

The status of women in preindustrial societies

Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Widlok T & Cruz MD (eds) (2022)

Scale matters: the quality and quantity in human culture and sociality

Culture and Theory Vol. 263. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.

Woodburn J (1980)

Hunters and gatherers today and reconstruction of the past

In Gellner A (ed) Soviet and Western anthropology. London: Duckworth: 95-117.

Woodburn J (1982)

Egalitarian societies

Man (NS) 17:431-51.

Woodburn J (2015)

James Woodburn: my recent stay among the Hadza of Tanzania 17 February 2015

Talk given to the Radical Anthropology Group.