Hunter-Gatherer: Why have hunting and gathering societies been described as 'affluent' and 'egalitarian'? Are they?
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, grade: 64, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: Why have hunting and gathering societies been described as 'affluent' and 'egalitarian'? Are they?To start with a rather polemic answer to the explicit question whether hunter-gatherers are affluent, it seems to be the case that many of them nowadays are suffering from poverty. A few, on the other hand, accumulate riches that are impressive - even judged with a Western standard. This is what Gell (1988) shows for the Muria in India. Those people are predominantly not hunting and gathering anymore,…
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- ISBN: 978-3-656-32382-2
- EAN: 9783656323822
- Produktnummer: 24368088
- Verlag: GRIN Verlag
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 6 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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