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The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways (original 1995; edition 1995)

by Robert L. Kelly (Author)

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In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.… (more)
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Title:The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways
Authors:Robert L. Kelly (Author)
Info:Smithsonian Institution Press (1995), 446 pages
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First published as 'The Foraging Spectrum' by Smithsonian Institution Press 1995, Revised Edition retitled as 'The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers : The Foraging Spectrum' by Percheron Press 2004. They are the same work, do not separate.
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In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.

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