4. “The Original Affluent Society”: Four Decades On

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: The Politics and Practices of Egalitarianism
6. 1. All People Are (Not) Good 21
7. 2. Community, State, and Questions of Social Evolution in Karl Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks 31
8. 3. Subtle Matters of Theory and Emphasis: Richard Lee and Controversies about Foraging Peoples 53
9. 4. “The Original Affluent Society”: Four Decades On 65
10. 5. The Original Affluent Society 79
11. 6. On the Politics of Being Jewish in a Multiracial State 99
12. Part II: The Kalahari Then and Now
13. 7. The Lion/Bushman Relationship in Nyae Nyae in the 1950s: A Relationship Crafted in the Old Way 119
14. 8. The Kalahari Peoples Fund: The Activist Legacy of the Harvard Kalahari Research Group 131
15. 9. Land, Livestock, and Leadership among the Ju/’hoansi San of North-Western Botswana 149
16. 10. Contemporary Bushman Art, Identity Politics, and the Primitivism Discourse 159
17. 11. Class, Culture, and Recognition: San Farm Workers and Indigenous Identities 189
18. 12. The Other Side of Development: HIV/AIDS among Men and Women in Ju/’hoansi Villages 205
19. Part III: Richard Borshay Lee: An Appreciation
20. 13. Richard B. Lee and Company: A Kalahari Chronicle, 1963–2000 223
21. 14. Richard B. Lee: The Politics, Art, and Science of Anthropology 229
22. Richard Borshay Lee: Selected Bibliography 243
23. Notes on Contributors 249
24. Index 253