Contents

Notes on the Contributors PaSe ix Introduction 1 ELEANOR LEACOCKUWrf RICHARD LEE

Part I: Dynamics of egalitarian foraging societies 21 1 Political process in G/wi bands 23 GEORGE SILBERBAUER 2 Politics, sexual and non-sexual, in an egalitarian society 37 RICHARD LEE 3 Risk, reciprocity and social influences on !Kung San economics 61 POLLY WIESSNER 4 Descended from father, belonging to country: rights to land in the Australian Western Desert 85 ANNETTE HAMILTON 5 Living dangerously: the contradictory foundations of value in Canadian Inuit society 109 JEAN L. BRIGGS 6 The ritualization of potential conflict between the sexes among the Mbuti 133 COLIN M.TURNBULL

Part II: Forager-farmer relations 157 7 Relations of production in band society 159 ELEANOR LEACOCK 8 The family, group structuring and trade among South Indian hunter-gatherers 171 BRIAN MORRIS viii Contents 9 Aka-farmer relations in the northwest Congo Basin 189 SERGE BAHUCHETflUti HENRI GUILLAUME translatedby SHEILA M. VAN WYCK 10 Adaptive flexibility in a multi-ethnic setting: the Basarwa of the Southern Kalahari 213 HELGA I. D. V1ERICH 11 Patterns of sedentism among the Basarwa of eastern Botswana 223 ROBERT K. HITCHCOCK 12 Nomads without cattle: East African foragers in historical perspective 269 CYNTHIA CHANG 13 In the land of milk and honey: Okiek adaptations to their forests and neighbours 283 RODERIC H. BLACKBURN

Part III: Contemporary political struggles 307 14 Utter savages of scientific value 309 RENATO ROSALDO 15 From foragers to fighters: South Africa's militarization of the Namibian San 327 RICHARD hEEand SUSAN HURLICH 16 Dene self-determination and the study of hunter-gatherers in the modern world 347 MICHAEL I. ASCH 17 The future of hunters within nation-states: anthropology and the James Bay Cree 373 HARVEY A. FEIT 18 Hydroelectric dam construction and the foraging activities of eastern Quebec Montagnais 413 PAUL CHAREST 19 The outstation movement in Aboriginal Australia 427 H. C. COOMBS, B. G. DEXTER<2«d L. R. HIATT 20 Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory of Australia 441 NICOLAS PETERSON 21 Political consciousness and land rights among the Australian Western Desert people 463 DANIEL A. VACHON

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