Hunting and Gathering Societies: Anthropology

Nurit Bird-David

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.12090-2

Hunting and Gathering Societies: Anthropology

Nurit Bird-David

Department of Sociology

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Abstract

The perspectives taken on the contemporary peoples referred to by this term have changed considerably since its early uses in the eighteenth century. I describe its evolving meanings, and then several clusters of features partially shared by these peoples, including sharing, perceptions of the environment, animism, relational knowledge, and relational ontologies. Though their cases are rare, they remain pivotal in modern thought as our ultimate "Other" and our ultimate "Us.".

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	428-431
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080970875
ISBN (Print)	9780080970868
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.12090-2
State	Published - 26 Mar 2015

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Keywords

Animism
Band societies
Collective appropriation
Foragers
Giving environment
Hunter-gatherers' relational ontologies
Hunter-gatherers' relations with others
Hunters and gatherers
Immediacy
Indigenous peoples
Relational epistemology
Sharing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences

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