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The Significance of Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers: Residence Patterns, Population Densities, and Social Inequalities [and Comments and Reply]
- Alain Testart, R. G. Forbis, +5 authors D. Stuart
- History
- Current Anthropology
- 1 October 1982
Some hunter-gatherer societies (the Indians of California and of the Northwest Coast, for instance) depart significantly from the commonly accepted definition. This paper demonstrates that in such… Expand
INTERPRÉTATION SYMBOLIQUE ET INTERPRÉTATION RELIGIEUSE EN ARCHÉOLOGIE : L'EXEMPLE DU TAUREAU A CATAL HÖYÜK
- Alain Testart
- Biology
- 2006
Resume: Cet article prend l’exemple du taureau a Catal Hoyuk pour avancer quelques points de methode dans l’interpretation de l’iconographie des societes sans ecriture. Il souligne d’abord la… Expand
The Extent and Significance of Debt Slavery
- Alain Testart
- Economics
- 2002
The phenomenon of debt slavery has either been greatly underestimated or, on the contrary, overestimated through confusion with other ways of dealing with the debtor, like pawning, for instance, or… Expand
Des crânes et des vautours ou la guerre oubliée
- Alain Testart
- Biology
- 2008
L’archeologie proche-orientale est celebre pour les crânes sans corps retrouves en differents sites du PPNA, PPNB ou Neolithique. Ces trouvailles ont ete regulierement interpretees comme l’indice… Expand
Game Sharing Systems and Kinship Systems Among Hunter-Gatherers
- Alain Testart
- Geography
- 1 June 1987
This article argues that there are two major kinds of game sharing among nomadic huntergatherers. In one, sharing is initiated by the hunter himself who shares out the game. In the other, the process… Expand
Some Major Problems in the Social Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply]
- Alain Testart, B. Arcand, +9 authors M. Zvelebil
- Sociology
- Current Anthropology
- 1 February 1988
What is the relationship between the present-day hunter-gatherer studied by anthropologists and the societies of the Palaeolithic? And how is the articulation between the economy of these societies… Expand
What is a gift?
- Alain Testart
- Philosophy
- HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
- 1 April 2013
This article introduces the subject of defining a gift in an ironic way, imagining Martian anthropologists conducting fieldwork among terrestrial human beings, hearing so many times the verb “to… Expand
Reconstructing Social and Cultural Evolution
- Alain Testart
- Sociology
- Current Anthropology
- 6 December 2012
This article presents a systematic critique of phylogenetic linguistic methodology as applied to social or cultural data. The example that occasions this criticism is a 2006 article by Fortunato,… Expand
Innovations, food storage and the origins of agriculture
- Geoffroy de Saulieu, Alain Testart
- Geography
- 13 January 2015
Abstract The global phenomenon of the birth of agriculture remains an enigma and challenges the role of food storage. Much has been written about their invention. A general explanation is needed for… Expand
ABORIGINAL SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND RECIPROCITY
- Alain Testart
- Sociology
- 1 September 1989
This paper seeks to show that while the idea of reciprocity is fundamental in Australian Aboriginal societies, inequalities are also inherent in the kinship system itself. An attempt is then made to… Expand