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

Johannes Lenhard

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Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, 64, University of Cambridge, English, 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 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.

Language: English

Pages: 12

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Release: November 28, 2012

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