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The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum

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In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.


Review

'Using Latin America as a case study, Kaplan clearly explains the interplay between economics and politics in the international arena … A thoroughly analytical work with the potential to transform thinking about globalization and austerity measures worldwide. Summing up: highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections.' L. O. Imade, Choice

Book Description

Challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity.

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars

J.H. · 18 April 2015

Helped me enormously with an Anthropology essay at uni.

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended

s.m. · 3 March 2016

Excellent

4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars

S.K. · 17 January 2015

Very useful for my university course on hunter-gatherers and human evolution.

最新の改訂版

阿. · 22 November 2020

以前の出版物の最新改訂版なので、有益である。

Gutes Buch

H.L. · 20 June 2025

Gutes Buch - eine ausführliche Rezension wird hier sicher nicht erwartet.

The Definitive Resource on Hunter Gatherers

M.V.P. · 23 November 2015

This is without doubt the most useful resource for a researcher with a need for a broad survey on the topic of hunter-gatherers. The data are clear and compiled into useful comparative forms. The findings are presented in historical context as anthropology morphed from a primarily linguistic study into one of sustainability. I wish there was a parallel for pastoral nomads.

Superb

L.C.D.C. · 22 May 2022

Very informative book!

Great stuff

R. · 6 September 2017

Kelly summarizes our knowledge about foragers in this book. A must read for those interested in the subject

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Description:

In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.


Review

'Using Latin America as a case study, Kaplan clearly explains the interplay between economics and politics in the international arena … A thoroughly analytical work with the potential to transform thinking about globalization and austerity measures worldwide. Summing up: highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections.' L. O. Imade, Choice

Book Description

Challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity.

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars

J.H. · 18 April 2015

Helped me enormously with an Anthropology essay at uni.

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended

s.m. · 3 March 2016

Excellent

4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars

S.K. · 17 January 2015

Very useful for my university course on hunter-gatherers and human evolution.

最新の改訂版

阿. · 22 November 2020

以前の出版物の最新改訂版なので、有益である。

Gutes Buch

H.L. · 20 June 2025

Gutes Buch - eine ausführliche Rezension wird hier sicher nicht erwartet.

The Definitive Resource on Hunter Gatherers

M.V.P. · 23 November 2015

This is without doubt the most useful resource for a researcher with a need for a broad survey on the topic of hunter-gatherers. The data are clear and compiled into useful comparative forms. The findings are presented in historical context as anthropology morphed from a primarily linguistic study into one of sustainability. I wish there was a parallel for pastoral nomads.

Superb

L.C.D.C. · 22 May 2022

Very informative book!

Great stuff

R. · 6 September 2017

Kelly summarizes our knowledge about foragers in this book. A must read for those interested in the subject

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