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Property and Equality : Volume II: Encapsulation, Commercialization, Discrimination / ed. by Wolde Gossa Tadesse, Thomas Widlok.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2004]Copyright date: 2004Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800734036
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/2 22
LOC classification:
  • HM821
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Power and Property in Twenty-First Century Foragers A Critical Examination -- 2 Money Makes the World Go Round? Commodity Sharing, Gifting and Exchange in the Baka (Pygmy) Economy -- 3 Whose Forest Is It Anyway? Mbendjele Yaka Pygmies, the Ndoki Forest and the Wider World -- 4 The Significance of Trade in an Immediate-Return Society: The Batek Case -- 5 The Road to Equality? Landscape Transformation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia -- 6 Equalising Processes, Processes of Discrimination and the Forest People of Central Africa -- 7 Delay, Return and Hierarchy: Six Aboriginal Marriage Systems Compared -- 8 The Power of Women in an Ostensibly Male-Dominated Agro-Pastoral Society -- 9 The Incorporated Ground: The Contemporary Work of Distribution in the Kutubu Oil Project Area, Papua New Guinea -- 10 Sharing the Land: Kalahari San Property Rights and Resource Management -- 11 The Professionalisation and Commoditisation of the Contemporary Bushman Trance Dancer and Trance Dance, and the Decline of Sharing -- 12 From Humility to Lordship in Island Southeast Asia -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number of fields and has gained sophistication as well as momentum. This collection of essays on "property and equality" acknowledges this diversification by presenting research results in two complementary volumes. They bring together a wide range of authoritative researchers most of whom have worked with hunter-gatherer groups. These two volumes cover existing ethnographic and theoretical ground while maintaining a clear focus on the relation between property and equality. The book consists of the most recent work of prominent members of the original group of researchers in hunter-gatherer studies among them James Woodburn and Richard Lee, and very recent ethnography on hunter-gatherers and other egalitarian systems.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Power and Property in Twenty-First Century Foragers A Critical Examination -- 2 Money Makes the World Go Round? Commodity Sharing, Gifting and Exchange in the Baka (Pygmy) Economy -- 3 Whose Forest Is It Anyway? Mbendjele Yaka Pygmies, the Ndoki Forest and the Wider World -- 4 The Significance of Trade in an Immediate-Return Society: The Batek Case -- 5 The Road to Equality? Landscape Transformation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia -- 6 Equalising Processes, Processes of Discrimination and the Forest People of Central Africa -- 7 Delay, Return and Hierarchy: Six Aboriginal Marriage Systems Compared -- 8 The Power of Women in an Ostensibly Male-Dominated Agro-Pastoral Society -- 9 The Incorporated Ground: The Contemporary Work of Distribution in the Kutubu Oil Project Area, Papua New Guinea -- 10 Sharing the Land: Kalahari San Property Rights and Resource Management -- 11 The Professionalisation and Commoditisation of the Contemporary Bushman Trance Dancer and Trance Dance, and the Decline of Sharing -- 12 From Humility to Lordship in Island Southeast Asia -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number of fields and has gained sophistication as well as momentum. This collection of essays on "property and equality" acknowledges this diversification by presenting research results in two complementary volumes. They bring together a wide range of authoritative researchers most of whom have worked with hunter-gatherer groups. These two volumes cover existing ethnographic and theoretical ground while maintaining a clear focus on the relation between property and equality. The book consists of the most recent work of prominent members of the original group of researchers in hunter-gatherer studies among them James Woodburn and Richard Lee, and very recent ethnography on hunter-gatherers and other egalitarian systems.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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