"These excellent books enrich our understanding of immediate return
societies and the persistence of immediate-return arrangements in
delayed-return societies. I was reflecting recently that
anthropologists have not given sufficient attention to Woodburn's
theoretical framework. These contributions go a long way towards
filling that gap." . Jerome Rousseau in Anthropological Forum
The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met
with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number
of fields and has gained sophistication as well as momentum. This
collection of essays on "property and equality" acknowledges this
diversification by presenting research results in two complementary
volumes. They bring together a wide range of authoritative
researchers most of whom have worked with hunter-gatherer groups.
These two volumes cover existing ethnographic and theoretical
ground while maintaining a clear focus on the relation between
property and equality. The book consists of the most recent work of
prominent members of the original group of researchers in
hunter-gatherer studies among them James Woodburn and Richard Lee,
and very recent ethnography on hunter-gatherers and other
egalitarian systems.
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