The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers(English, Hardcover, Kelly Robert L.)

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The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers(English, Hardcover, Kelly Robert L.) is written by Kelly Robert L. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107024870 (ISBN 10) and 9781107024878 (ISBN 13).

In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.