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- PublisherAcademic Press
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0125876203
- ISBN 13 9780125876209
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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Book Description 1982. North America, Native Americans, Arctic Studies. Academic Press. 242p., very good pictorial boards, ex-library. Seller Inventory # -1264871494
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.98. Seller Inventory # G0125876203I3N00
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very good. xii, 242 p., map, 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Publisher series: Studies in Anthropology. Library book, otherwise very good. Seller Inventory # 007695
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, xii + 242 pages, NOT ex-library. Limited signs of gentle wear. Book is clean, bright, untanned; unmarked text, free of inscriptions/stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Many observers of nomadic hunter-gatherers have adopted a scientific approach in their analyses. For the study of a society which, in many respects, still closely resembles the earliest form of human organization this is not altogether surprising. By contrast, in this book the author employs a humanistic approach to challenge the widely held emphasis on scientific explanation of social organization. It is argued here that social and cultural forms are to be understood in terms of the experience and knowledge of the people who create them. Concentrating particularly on the theoretical relationship between people's actions in everyday life and the social ideas which they share as members of the same culture, this study develops ideas which offer new insights into those aspects of hunter-gatherer society which are so often discussed in the literature. An important concern is with social change, dealing with hunter-gatherer society before and after contact with the West. Here a theory of social change, based on humanistic lines, is put forward. While this book is concerned with nomadic hunter-gatherer society in northern North America, it is primarily not an ethnographic study. Rather, it is a series of reflections on the social anthropology of hunter-gatherers incorporating new ideas and suggesting pathways for further research. This is one of the few books to give a humanistic approach to the study of hunter-gatherer societies. -- Contents: 1. Humanistic Approach & the Study of Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers [On Mythology, Cosmology & Knowledge of the Situation; Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers in the Arctic and Subarctic] 2. Question of Campsite: Production per Capita Rationale [Further Theoretical Problems; General Theoretical Framework; Subsidiary Theoretical Concerns; Realisation of a Predictability & Frequency in Animal Capture & Meat Sharing; Realisation of Cooperation & Sharing Among the Hunters in the Context of Crowding at Hunting Venues (Traditional Eskimo Caribou Hunting; Eskimo Weir Fishing; Indian Caribou (and Moose) Hunting Camps; Eskimo Powered-Boat Camps; Other Camps); Realisation of a Reliable Assistance in a Context of Potential Misfortune; Social Goals] 3. Principles of Social Organisation [Eskimo Social Organisation: Variant & Invariant Conditions; Exemplar Social Organisation: Iglulik Eskimo; Alaskan Eskimo; Copper & Netsilik Eskimos; Problems in the Analysis of Subarctic Indian Society; Indian Societies in the Eastern Canadian Subarctic; Kutchin Indians in Central Alaska] 4. Hunter-Gatherer Territorial Notions & Bilaterality [Socio-Territorial Groupings in H.-G. Society; Analysis of the Band; Locational Band: Territorial Extent & Population Size] 5. Principles of Leadership in Eskimo Society [Traditional & Contact Period] 6. Indian Family Trapping Territory [Materialism as a Necessary Condition for the Emergence of FTT; Towards an Alternative Theory; Ownership of Captured Resources (Rights of Procurement & Distribution of Game); Materialistic Values & Courtesy of Partner Distribution; FTT & Dilemma of Sharing vs Having] 7. From Traditional to Contact: Instances of Social Change in Northern Hunter-Gatherer Societies [Theory of Social Change (Understanding; Process 1: Change in Eskimo & Indian Camp Size; 2/3: General Remarks; 2: Emergence of the Indian FTT; 3: Excursion Into the Contemporary Period; 4: Emergence of the Seal-Sharing Partnership); Application of the Theory of Social Change (Breakdown of Multi-family Households; Change in Social Organisation Outside the Household; Subscription to Materialistic & New Religious Values] 8. Scarcity in the Hunter-Gatherer Economy [Evolutionary Implications; Scarcity; Methodological Reflections (Assumption of Rationality in Maximisation; Factors Cited in Explanation]; References; Index. Seller Inventory # 006522
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Book Description [0-12-587620-3] 1982. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 242pp. Notes, bibliography, index. The front endpaper is corner-clipped and the spine is slightly discolored. Publisher series: Studies in Anthropology. Locale: Northern Canada. (Anthropology, Hunter-Gatherers, Nomadic Life). Seller Inventory # 157443
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