Tim Ingold Department of Social Anthropology,University of Manchester Riches David Riches Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews James Woodburn Department of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics

'This excellent book. is indispensable for any anthropology program above the introductory level.' Choice'A significant addition to our knowledge of the cultures of small-scale societies.'Anthropos

• Preface 1. Twenty years of history, evolution and social change in gatherer-hunter studies Part 1 Hunters and gatherers and outsiders 2. Hunters and gatherers and other people – a re-examination 3. African hunter-gatherer social organization: is it best understood as a product of encapsulation? 4. Free or doomed? Images of the Hadzabe hunters and gatherers of Tanzania Part 2 Flux, sedentism and change 5. The complexities of residential organization among the Efe (Mbuti) and the Bagombi (Baka): a critical view of the notion of flux in hunter-gatherer societies 6. Pressures for Tamil propriety in Paliyan social Organization 7. Tributary tradition and relations of affinity and gender 8. Foraging, starch extraction and the sedentary lifestyle in the lowland rainforest of central Seram Part 3 Historical and evolutionary transformations 9. At the frontier: some arguments against hunter-gathering and farming modes of production in southern Africa 10. Palaeopolitics: resource intensification in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea 11. Politics and production among the Calusa of south Florida 12. Hunters and gatherers of the sea Part 4 Theoretical and Comparative Approaches 13. Hominids, humans and hunter-gatherers: an evolutionary perspective 14. Risk and uncertainty in the 'original affluent society': evolutionary ecology of resource-sharing and land tenure 15. Reflections on primitive communism 16. Notes on the foraging mode of production