Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations x
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Silence and Other Misunderstandings: Russian Anthropology, Western Hunter-Gatherer Debates, and Siberian Peoples 29
7. I. Warfare and Conflict Resolution
8. 2. Visions of Conflict, Conflicts of Vision among Contemporary Dene Tha 55
9. 3. Warfare among the Hunters and Fishermen of Western Siberia 77
10. 4. Homicide and Aggression among the Agta of Eastern Luzon, the Philippines, 1910–1985 94
11. 5. Conflict Management in a Modern Inuit Community 110
12. 6. Wars and Chiefs among the Samoyeds and Ugrians of 125 Western Siberia 125
13. 7. Ritual Violence among the Peoples of Northeastern Siberia 150
14. 8. Patterns of War and Peace among Complex Hunter- Gatherers: The Case of the Northwest Coast of North America 164
15. II. Resistance, Identity, and the State
16. 9. The Concept of an International Ethnoecological Refuge 183
17. 10. Aboriginal Responses to Mining in Australia: Economic Aspirations, Cultural Revival, and the Politics of Indigenous Protest 192
18. 11. Political Movement, Legal Reformation, and Transformation of Ainu Identity 206
19. 12. Tracking the “Wild Tungus” in Taimyr: Identity, Ecology, and Mobile Economies in Arctic Siberia 223
20. 13. Marginality with a Difference, or How the Huaorani Preserve Their Sharing Relations and Naturalize Outside Powers 244
21. III. Ecology, Demography, and Market Issues
22. 14. “Interest in the Present” in the Nationwide Monetary Economy: The Case of Mbuti Hunters in Zaire 263
23. 15. Dynamics of Adaptation to Market Economy among the Ayoréode of Northwest Paraguay 275
24. 16. Can Hunter-Gatherers Live in Tropical Rain Forests? The Pleistocene Island Melanesian Evidence 287
25. 17. The Ju/’hoansi San under Two States: Impacts of the South West African Administration and the Government of the Republic of Namibia 305
26. 18. Russia’s Northern Indigenous Peoples: Are They Dying Out? 327
27. IV. Gender and Representation
28. 19. Gender Role Transformation among Australian Aborigines 343
29. 20. Names That Escape the State: Hai//om Naming Practices versus Domination and Isolation 361
30. 21. Central African Government’s and International NGOs’ Perceptions of Baka Pygmy Development 380
31. 22. The Role of Women in Mansi Society 391
32. 23. Peacemaking Ideology in a Headhunting Society: Hudhud, Women’s Epic of the Ifugao 399
33. V. World-View and Religious Determination
34. 24. Painting as Politics: Exposing Historical Processes in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art 413
35. 25. Gifts from the Immortal Ancestors: Cosmology and Ideology of Jahai Sharing 427
36. 26. Time in the Traditional World-View of the Kets: Materials on the Bear Cult 455
37. 27. Lexicon as a Source for Understanding Sel’kup Knowledge of Religion 460
38. Notes on Contributors 475
39. Appendix: A Note on the Spelling of Siberian Ethnonyms 485
40. Index 487