Some Major Problems in the Social Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply]

@article{Testart1988SomeMP,
  title={Some Major Problems in the Social Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply]},
  author={Alain Testart and Bernard Arcand and Tim Ingold and Dominique N. Legros and Antje Linkenbach and John. Morton and Nicolas Peterson and Devaraju Rama Raju and Carmel Schrire and Eric Alden Smith and Margaret Walter and Marek Zvelebil},
  journal={Current Anthropology},
  year={1988},
  volume={29},
  pages={1 - 31}
}
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 and their other aspects to be conceived? In attempting to answer these questions, this article takes into account a further problem, that of the uniqueness of Australian Aboriginal social organization. 
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