Full Description
This book compiles a collection of case studies analysing drivers of and responses to change amongst contemporary hunter-gatherers. Contemporary hunter-gatherers' livelihoods are examined from perspectives ranging from historical legacy to environmental change, and from changes in national economic, political and legal systems to more broad-scale and universal notions of globalization and acculturation.
Far from the commonly held romantic view that hunter-gatherers continue to exist as isolated populations living a traditional lifestyle in harmony with the environment, contemporary hunter-gatherers - like many rural communities around the world - face a number of relatively new ecological and social challenges to which they are pressed to adapt. Contemporary hunter-gatherer societies are increasingly and rapidly being affected by Global Changes, related both to biophysical Earth systems (i.e., changes in climate, biodiversity and natural resources, and water availability), and to social systems (i.e. demographic transitions, sedentarisation, integration into the market economy, and all the socio-cultural change that these and other factors trigger).
Chapter 10 of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Contents
Introduction: Hunter-Gatherers in a Fast Changing World.- Part I: The Historical Legacy.- 1. The Fortunes of Foragers in Colonial and Post-Colonial New Guinea.- 2. When is a Foraging Society? The Loplik in the Tarim Basin.- Part II: Environmental Change.- 3. Trailing Forest Uses Among the Punan Tubu of North Kalimantan, Indonesia.- 4. Bushmeat Crisis, Forestry Reforms and Contemporary Hunting Among Central African Forest Hunters.- 5. Defaunation Through the Eyes of the Tsimane'.- 6. The Death of the Chief of Peccaries: The Apurinã and the Scarcity of Forest Resources in Brazilian Amazonia.- Part III: Changes in Economic, Political and Legal Systems.- 7. Why Pumé Foragers Retain a Hunting and Gathering Way of Life on a Transitional Landscape.- 8. Sharing in a Context of Rural Development. A Study Among a Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Society in Indonesia.- 9. Hunter-Gatherers and Fishing Rights in Alaska and Siberia: Contemporary Governmentality, Subsistence, and Sustainable Enterprises.- Part IV: Globalization and Cultural Change.- 10. Indigenous Networks and Evangelical Frontiers: Problems with Governance Ethics in Cases of 'Voluntary Isolation' in Contemporary Amazonia.- 11. 'Like Father, Like Son'? Baka Children's Local Ecological Knowledge Learning in a Context of Cultural Change.- 12. Persistence and Change in Infant Care among Aka Foragers.- 13. Globalized Conflicts, Globalized Responses. Changing Manners of Contestation Among Indigenous Communities.
