The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers

Hunting and gathering peoples, including Kalahari Bushmen, Australian aborigines, Eskimos, and Pygmies, are the subject of endless appeal. This illustrated reference volume is the first devoted exclusively to hunting and gathering peoples that is both accessible to the nonspecialist and written by leading scholars. It is a state-of-the-art summary of knowledge on the subject, covering an extraordinary range of materials: case studies of over fifty of the world's hunter-gatherers, the archaeological background, religion and world view, music and art, questions of gender, health and nutrition, and contemporary rights.

Author: Richard B. Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/29/2004
Pages: 534
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.95lbs
Size: 10.74h x 8.34w x 0.95d
ISBN: 9780521609197

Review Citation(s):
Rec Ref Bks for Small/Med Libr 01/01/2006 pg. 170
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2006 pg. 374

About the Author
Lee, Richard B.: - Richard B. Lee is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, author of The !Kung San (1979) and The Dobe Ju'hoansi (second edition, 1993), and co-editor, with Irven Devore, of Man and Hunter (1968) and Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers (1976), and, with Eleanor Leacok, of Politics and History in Band Societies (1982).Daly, Richard: - Richard Daly is a freelance anthropologist, who has spent the past decade working on aboriginal rights cases in British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of a three-volume unpublished report, Stol: o: The River People (1993), and co-author of They Write Their Dreams on Rock Forever (1993).