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.
Venkataramanis V (2023)
Lessons from the foragers: hunter-gatherers don't live in an economic idyll but their deep appreciation of rest puts industrialised work to shameAeon.
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 2015Talk given to the Radical Anthropology Group.