As the world continues to shrink owing to globalization, the need to understand the diversity of culturally distinct societies and their interactions with neighboring groups becomes greaterthan ever. Susan Kent has invited an international team of experts to present their insights into how one type of society, African hunter-gatherers, has managed to survive long past the first contactbetween foragers, farmers, and pastoralists. The contributors explore many issues, including culture change, trade, tribute, inter-group relations, autonomy, dependence, and differential contact histories and rates of change. They consider why the association of hunter-gatherers with non-hunter-gatherers has sometimes led to trade between autonomous societies and in other cases has led to assimilation. Ethnicity, Hunter-Gatherers, and the "Other" illuminates both past and present foraging societies by presenting new data and reinterpreting previously collected data within the framwork of inter-group interactions.
- ISBN10 1588340600
- ISBN13 9781588340603
- Publish Date 17 October 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Smithsonian Books
- Imprint Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781588340603