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Man The Hunter

Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists generally have been reappraising the basic concepts of descent, filiation, residence, and group structure. This book presents new data on hunters and clarifies a series of conceptual issues among social anthropologists as a necessary background to broader discussions with archaeologists, biologists, and students of human evolution. Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Problems in the Study of Hunters and Gatherers by Richard B. Lee and Irven Devore 2. The Current Status of the World's Hunting and Gathering Peoples by George Peter Murdock PART II: ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS 3. The "Hunting" Economies of the Tropical Forest Zone of South America: An Attempt at Historical Perspective by Donald W. Lathrap 4. What Hunters Do for a Living, or, How to Make Out on Scarce Resources by Richard B. Lee 5. An Introduction to Hadza Ecology by James Woodburn 6. Coping with Abundance: Subsistence o

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