Hunter-Gatherer: Why have hunting and gathering societies been described as 'affluent' and 'egalitarian'? Are they?

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Cover of the book Hunter-Gatherer: Why have hunting and gathering societies been described as 'affluent' and 'egalitarian'? Are they? by Johannes Lenhard, GRIN Verlag
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Author: Johannes Lenhard ISBN: 9783656323822
Publisher: GRIN Verlag Publication: November 28, 2012
Imprint: GRIN Verlag Language: English
Author: Johannes Lenhard
ISBN: 9783656323822
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Publication: November 28, 2012
Imprint: GRIN Verlag
Language: English

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, however, but under the influence of a modern economy. They are capitalists without capitalist notions of boastful and lavish consumption.

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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, however, but under the influence of a modern economy. They are capitalists without capitalist notions of boastful and lavish consumption.

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