In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western
industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and
gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy
the ecological niches that are constantly eroded. Despite the
denial of sovereignty, the world's more than 350 million indigenous
peoples continue to assert aboriginal title to significant portions
of the world's remaining bio-diversity. As a result, conflicts
between tribal peoples and nation states are on the increase.
Today, many of the societies that gave the field of anthropology
its empirical foundations and unique global vision of a diverse and
evolving humanity are being destroyed as a result of national
economic, political, and military policies.
Although quite a sizable body of literature exists on the living
conditions of the hunters and gatherers, this volume is unique in
that it represents the first extensive east-west scholarly exchange
in anthropology since the demise of the USSR. Moreover, it also
offers new perspectives from indigenous communities and scholars in
an exchange that be termed "south-north" as opposed to "
north-north," denoting the predominance of northern Europe and
North America in scholarly debate.
The main focus of this volume is on the internal dynamics and
political strategies of hunting and gathering societies in areas of
self-determination and self-representation. More specifically, it
examines areas such as warfare and conflict resolution, resistance,
identity and the state, demography and ecology, gender and
representation, and world view and religion. It raises a large
number of major issues of common concerns and therefore makes
important reading for all those interested in human rights issues,
ethnic conflict, grassroots development and community organization,
and environmental topics.
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