Hunter-Gatherers and Their Neighbors from Prehistory to the Present
| dc.contributor.author | Headland, Thomas N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Reid, Lawrence A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-07T17:22:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-05-07T17:22:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1989 | |
| dc.description.abstract | It is widely assumed that modern hunter-gatherer societies lived until very recently in isolation from food-producing societies and states and practiced neither cultivation, pastoralism, nor trade. This paper brings together data suggesting a very different model of middle to late Holocene hunter-gatherer economy. It is argued that such foraging groups were heavily dependent upon both trade with food-producing populations and part-time cultivation or pastoralism. Recent publications on a number of hunter-gather societies establish that the symbiosis and desultory food production observed among them today are neither recent nor anomalous but represent an economy practiced by most hunter- gatherers for many hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Psychological and political reasons for Westerners' attachment to the myth of the "Savage Other" are discussed. | |
| dc.format.extent | 34 pages | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Thomas N. Headland and Reid, Lawrence. "Hunter-Gatherers and their Neighbors from Prehistory to the Present." Current Anthropology 30, no. 1 (1989): 43-51. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/32982 | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Current Anthropology | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | vol. 30 | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | no. 1 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Anthropology | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Hunting and gathering societies | |
| dc.title | Hunter-Gatherers and Their Neighbors from Prehistory to the Present | |
| dc.type | Article |
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