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2.What kinds of changes were transforming West African agricultural villagesocieties and those of the Iroquois as the 15th century dawned?
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Political and Territorial Structures Among Hunter-GatherersMan
New Series, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Mar., 1986)
, pp. 18-33 (16 pages)
Published By: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
//doi.org/10.2307/2802644
//www.jstor.org/stable/2802644
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Abstract
Existing models of hunter-gatherer territorial and political organisation are reviewed. It is suggested how these models may be refined in order to take full account of Australian Aboriginal cultures, and remove them from the anomalous position they occupy in Woodburn's typology of immediate and delayed return. It is argued that distinct types of political structure are directly related to patterns of territoriality, and that these cannot be reduced to a simple expression of ecological conditions. The issues raised are linked with strucuralist and marxist approaches to the explanation of hunter-gatherer social behaviour and it is argued that neither provides, on its own, a comprehensive explanation. The article relies in part on the author's fieldwork in north and central Australia.
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The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense. The Institute is a non-profit-making registered charity and is entirely independent, with a Director and a small staff accountable to the Council, which in turn is elected annually from the Fellowship. It has a Royal Patron in the person of HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO.