Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology

by Barnard, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781859738207
• ISBN10: 1859738206
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-15
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

This book provides a definitive overview of hunter-gatherer historiography, from the earliest anthropological writings through to the present day. What can early visions of the hunter-gatherer tell us about the societies that generated them? How do diverse national traditions, such as American, Russian and Japanese, manifest themselves in hunter-gatherer research? How does current thinking on the subject reflect trends within the social sciences? Answering these questions and many more, this book provides a much-needed assessment of the history of thought on one of science's most intriguing subjects.

Author Biography

Alan Barnard is Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa, University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Preface	ix
1 Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology: Introductory Essay	1	(14)
Alan Barnard
I Early Visions of Hunter-Gatherer Society and Their Influence	15	(52)
2 The Meaning of 'Hunter-Gatherers' and Modes of Subsistence: a Comparative Historical Perspective	17	(14)
Mark Pluciennik
3 Hunting-and-Gathering Society: an Eighteenth-Century Scottish Invention	31	(14)
Alan Barnard
4 Edward Westermarck and the Origin of Moral Ideas	45	(12)
L.R. Hiatt
5 Anthropological History and the Study of Hunters and Gatherers: Cultural and Non-cultural	57	(12)
Aram A. Yengoyan
II Local Traditions in Hunter-Gatherer Research	67	(76)
6 No Escape From Being Theoretically Important: Hunter-Gatherers in German-Language Debates of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	69	(8)
Peter P Schweitzer
7 Hunter-Gatherer Studies in Russia and the Soviet Union	77	(12)
O. Yu. Artemova
8 Soviet Traditions in the Study of Siberian Hunter-Gatherer Society	89	(14)
Anna A. Sirina
9 The Japanese Tradition in Central African Hunter-Gatherer Studies, with Comparative Observations on the French and American Traditions	103	(12)
Mitsuo Ichikawa
10 The Modem History of Japanese Studies on the San Hunter-Gatherers	115	(14)
Kazuyoshi Sugawara
11 Down Ancient Trails: Hunter-Gatherers in Indian Archaeology	129	(14)
Shanti Pappu
III Reinterpretations in Archaeology, Anthropology and the History of the Disciplines	143	(84)
12 The Many Ages of Star Carr: Do 'Cites' Make the 'Site'?	145	(18)
P.J. Lane and R.T. Schadla-Hall
13 Ethnographic Models, Archaeological Data, and the Applicability of Modern Foraging Theory	163	(12)
Michael S. Sheehan
14 Subtle Shifts and Radical Transformations in Hunter-Gatherer Research in American Anthropology: Julian Steward's Contributions and Achievements	175	(12)
L. Daniel Myers
15 Anthropology and Indigenous Rights in Canada and the United States: Implications in Steward's Theoretical Project	187	(14)
Marc Pinkoski and Michael Asch
16 Hunting for Histories: Rethinking Historicity in the Western Kalahari	201	(16)
James Suzman
17 (Re-)current Doubts on Hunter-Gatherer Studies as Contemporary History	217	(10)
Thomas Widlok
References	227	(40)
Notes on Contributors	267	(4)
Index	271