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Politics and history in band societies

by Richard B. Lee

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Collection of papers giving new information on the history and culture of contemporary gathering and hunting peoples from Canada, India, Africa, Australia and the Philippines. Focuses on two themes: 1) the techniques which band-living foraging peoples employ to organize their social and economic lives, and 2) their current fight for the right to their own lands and for a measure of cultural and political autonomy.

Primitive GovernmentHunting and gathering societiesAddresses, essays, lecturesIndigenous peoplesPolitical anthropologyState and territoryLandPrimitieve volkenIntegrationAnthropologie politiqueAutochtonesSouth Australia