8. Novidades Bibliográficas 1

Acabou de ser publicado em paperback um aliciante livro sobre a historiografia dos caçadores-recolectores, com 17 artigos de trabalhos apresentados na Ninth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHaGS 9) em Edinburgh 2002.

Hunter-Gatheres in History, Archaeology and Antropology
ed. Alan Barnard
Berg Publishers
July 2004, 288 pp.
HB 1859738206 £50.00 $79.95
PB 1859738257 £16.99 §26.95

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This book provides a definitive overview of hunter-gatherer historiography, from the earliest anthropological writings through to the present day. What can early visions of the hunter-gatherer tell us about the societies that generated them? How do diverse national traditions, such as American, Russian and Japanese, manifest themselves in hunter-gatherer research? How does current thinking on the subject reflect trends within the social sciences? Answering these questions and many more, this book provides a much-needed assessment of the history of thought on one of science's most intriguing subjects. (Berg Catologue)

The seventeen papers, mostly originating at the Ninth International Conference and Hunting and Gathering Societies held in Edinburgh in 2001, examine the idea of hunter-gathering through history whilst reflecting the `diversity in world anthropology'. Its aim is to provide a `unique contribution to understanding the many ways in which anthropologists, archaeologists and oter scholars have approached and do approach the study of hunter-gathering societies'. An introductory essay discusses fundamental developments in the study of hunter-gatherers, including recent trends which focus on the `affluence' of hunter-gathering societies and their property. The input of ethnographic analogy has also affected profoundly hunter-gatherer studies. The remaining papers are divided into sections on early visions of hunter-gatherer societies, local traditions in research (including Germany, the Soviet Union, Siberia, Japan and India), and reinterpretations. This last section includes an assessment of the contribution of American anthropology and archaeology. (Oxbow Books, UK)

Throughout its history, anthropology has based its most potent prototypes of core humanity on what was known of hunting and gathering peoples. But ethnographic and archaeological studies from around the world, of ever-greater depth and sophistication, have given us the means to challenge these prototypes. It is time to take stock of these studies, to place them in the historical and regional contexts of developing traditions of anthropological research, and to consider how they have responded to wider currents of thought. The Ninth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, held in Edinburgh in 2002, was convened to do just that. In this volume Alan Barnard has assembled some of the most outstanding contributions to the conference, to provide a benchmark assessment of the past achievements and future prospects of hunter-gatherer research. (Tim Ingold, Univ. of Aberdeen)

Alan Barnard é professor de antropologia na University of Edinburgh. Dedica-se essencialmente ao estudo das sociedades de caçadores-recolectores na África Meridional, com particular ênfase nas populações Khoisan.