• DOI:10.1086/203612
Corpus ID: 42136717

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 B. Arcand and T. Ingold and D. Legros and Antje Linkenbach and J. Morton and N. Peterson and D. Raju and C. Schrire and E. Smith and M. Walter and M. Zvelebil},
  journal={Current Anthropology},
  year={1988},
  volume={29},
  pages={1 - 31}
}

Alain Testart, B. Arcand, +9 authors M. Zvelebil

Published 1988

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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.