Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

1 Hunter- Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology:

2 The Meaning of 'Hunter- Gatherers' and Modes of Subsistence: a

3 Hunting- and- Gathering Society: an Eighteenth- Century

4 Edward Westermarck and the Origin of Moral Ideas

5 Anthropological History and the Study of Hunters and Gatherers:

6 No Escape From Being Theoretically Important: Hunter- Gatherers

7 Hunter- Gatherer Studies in Russia and the Soviet Union

8 Soviet Traditions in the Study of Siberian Hunter- Gatherer Society

9 The Japanese Tradition in Central African Hunter- Gatherer Studies,

10 The Modern History of Japanese Studies on the San Hunter-

11 Down Ancient Trails: Hunter- Gatherers in Indian Archaeology

12 The Many Ages of Star Carr: Do 'Cites' Make the 'Site'?

13 Ethnographic Models, Archaeological Data, and the Applicability

14 Subtle Shifts and Radical Transformations in Hunter- Gatherer

15 Anthropology and Indigenous Rights in Canada and the

16 Hunting for Histories: Rethinking Historicity in the Western

17 ( Re-) current Doubts on Hunter- Gatherer Studies as Contemporary

History Thomas Widlok References

Notes on Contributors