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Property and Equality : Volume I: Ritualization, Sharing, Egalitarianism / ed. by Wolde Gossa Tadesse, Thomas Widlok.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2004]Copyright date: 2004Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800734043
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 Egalitarian Societies Revisited -- 2 Individual Creativity and Property–Power Disjunction in an Australian Desert Society -- 3 Knowledge about Plant Medicine and Practice among the Ituri Forest Foragers -- 4 Space-Time, Ethnicity, and the Limits of Inuit and New Age Egalitarianism -- 5 Sharing Costs: an Exploration of Personal and Individual Property, Equalities and Differentiation -- 6 Possession, Equality and Gender Relations in /Gui Discourse -- 7 Are Immediate-Return Strategies Adaptive? -- 8 Food Sharing and Ownership among Central African Hunter-Gatherers: an Evolutionary Perspective -- 9 Time, Memory and Property -- 10 To Share or not to Share: Notes about Authority and Anarchy among the Hamar of Southern Ethiopia -- 11 ‘Their own oral histories’: Items of Ju/’hoan Belief and Items of Ju/’hoan Property -- 12 The Property of Sharing: Western Analytical Notions, Nayaka Contexts -- 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 Egalitarian Societies Revisited -- 2 Individual Creativity and Property–Power Disjunction in an Australian Desert Society -- 3 Knowledge about Plant Medicine and Practice among the Ituri Forest Foragers -- 4 Space-Time, Ethnicity, and the Limits of Inuit and New Age Egalitarianism -- 5 Sharing Costs: an Exploration of Personal and Individual Property, Equalities and Differentiation -- 6 Possession, Equality and Gender Relations in /Gui Discourse -- 7 Are Immediate-Return Strategies Adaptive? -- 8 Food Sharing and Ownership among Central African Hunter-Gatherers: an Evolutionary Perspective -- 9 Time, Memory and Property -- 10 To Share or not to Share: Notes about Authority and Anarchy among the Hamar of Southern Ethiopia -- 11 ‘Their own oral histories’: Items of Ju/’hoan Belief and Items of Ju/’hoan Property -- 12 The Property of Sharing: Western Analytical Notions, Nayaka Contexts -- 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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