Politics and history in band societies

Author(s): Leacock, Eleanor Burke, 1922- edited by Eleanor Leacock, Richard Lee.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

Place of Publication: Cambridge, England

Type: Book

Page Count: xiv, 500 p. : ill.

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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.

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Biomedical (Vancouver Style):

Leacock, Eleanor Burke, 1922- edited by Eleanor Leacock, Richard Lee. . Politics and history in band societies. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.; 1982.