Tim Ingold Department of Social Anthropology,University of Manchester Riches David Riches Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews James Woodburn Department of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics

• List of Plates, Figures and Maps, List of Tables, Preface, 1. Twenty years of history, evolution and social change in gatherer-hunter studies, Part 1: Hunters and gatherers and outsiders, 2. Hunters and gatherers and other people - a re-examination, 3. African hunter-gatherer social organization: is it best understood as a product of encapsulation?, 4. Free or doomed? Images of the Hadzabe hunters and gatherers of Tanzania, Part 2: Flux, sedentism and change, 5. The complexities of residential organization among the Efe (Mbuti) and the Bagombi (Baka): a critical view of the notion of flux in hunter-gatherer societies, 6. Pressures for Tamil propriety in Paliyan social organization, 7. Tributary tradition and relations of affinity and gender among the Sumatran Kubu, 8. Foraging, starch extraction and the sedentary lifestyle in the lowland rainforest of central Seram, Part 3. Historical and evolutionary transformations, 9. At the frontier: some arguments against hunter-gathering and farming modes of production in southern Africa, 10. Palaeopolitics: resource intensification in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea, 11. Politics and production among the Calusa of south Florida, 12. Hunters and gatherers of the sea, Part 4. Theoretical and Comparative, 13. Hominids, humans and hunter-gatherers: an evolutionary perspective, 14. Risk and uncertainty in the 'original affluent society': evolutionary ecology of resource-sharing and land tenure, 15. Reflections on primitive communism, 16. Notes on the foraging mode of production, References, Index, Notes on Contributors

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