Title: Politics and history in band societies
Description: Collection of papers giving new information on the history and culture of contemporary gathering and hunting peoples from Canada, India, Africa, Australia and the Philippines. Focuses on two themes: 1) the techniques which band-living foraging peoples employ to organize their social and economic lives, and 2) their current fight for the right to their own lands and for a measure of cultural and political autonomy.
Subjects: Primitive Government, Hunting and gathering societies, Addresses, essays, lectures, Indigenous peoples, Political anthropology, State and territory, Land, Primitieve volken, Integration, Anthropologie politique, Autochtones, South Australia, Government policy, Western Australia, Moeurs et coutumes, Nomadismus, Discours, essais, conférences, Land tenure, Wildbeuter, Naturvolk, Chasseurs-cueilleurs, Jagers en verzamelaars, Law, Aboriginal Australians, Aufsatzsammlung, Hunting