Cultural Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers
Reading/Video Assignments
Spring 2000
The first assignments listed below are the primary readings from the textbooks and other sources. The Kelly readings will be discussed in class and you must have the reading assignments done and summary/questions prepared from these materials each week. You will be responsible for preparing summary/questions on only the materials marked with an asterisk (*).
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 |
Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13 | Week 14 | Week 15 |
Week 1. (readings to be discussed on week 2):
AP450 –Read the syllabus
Yu – begin reading Hungry Lightning
*Kelly, pp. xi-37
Video: In Search of the Noble Savage
Additional Reading for Week 2:
Hobbs, Thomas (1651) The State of Nature, excerpt from Leviathan
Locke, John (1690) The State of Nature, excerpt from Two Treatises of Government
*Harris, Marvin (1968). Evolutionism: Methods. Chapter 6 from The Rise of Anthropological Theory, pp. 142-179.
Week 2. (readings to be discussed on week 3):
*Kelly, pp. 39-64
Gowdy, read Introduction (pp.ix-xxxi); Sahlins (pp. 5-41); and Lee (pp. 43-63)
Video: The Hunters
Additional Readings for Week 3:
*Harris, Marvin (1968) Cultural Materialism: General Evolution (Chapter 22) and Cultural Materialism: Cultural Ecology (Chapter 23) from The Rise of Anthropological Theory, pp. 634-687.
Week 3. (readings to be discussed on week 4):
*Krebs, JR. and N.B. Davies. Read Chapters 1-3. (pp. 4-76)
Review Begon et al. pp. x-134
Gowdy, read *Marshall (pp. 65-85) and Woodburn (pp. 87-110).
Video: First Contact
Week 4. (no reading assignment – prepare for in-class presentations)
Video: Darwin’s Revolution in Thought
Week 5. (readings to be discussed on week 6):
*Kelly, pp. 65-90
*Krebs and Davies pp. 77-119
Review Begon et al. pp 211-312
Additional Readings:
*Binford, L.R. (1980) Willow Smoke and Dogs’ Tails: Hunter Gather Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation. American Antiquity 45:4-20.
Belovsky, G. (1987) Hunter-Gatherer Foraging: A Linear Programming Approach. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 6:29-76.
Hawkes, K, J. O’Connell, and N. Blurton Jones (1991). Hunting Income Patterns among the Hadza: Big Game, Common Goods and the Evolution of Human Diet. In Foraging Strategies and Natural Diet of Monkeys, Apes and Humans, edited by A. Whiten and E. Widdowson, pp. 243-251. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 334. Claredon Press, London
Week 6. (readings to be discussed on week 7):
*Kelly, pp. 90-99
Gowdy, read Bird-David (pp.115-137)
Video: Australia’s Aborigines
Additional Readings:
Hill, K., H. Kaplan, K. Hawkes, and A. Hurtado (1987). Foraging Decisions among Ache Hunter-Gatherers: New Data and Implications for Optimal Foraging Models. Ethology and Sociobiology 8:1-36.
Jochim, M. (1988) Optimal Foraging and the Division of Labor. American Anthropologist 90:130-136.
*Winterhalder, B. (1987). Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Diets: Stalking an Optimal Foraging Model. In Food and Evolution, edited by M. Harris and E. Ross, pp. 311-339. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.
Week 7. (no reading assignment – prepare for midterm exam and do readings for term paper and over break, you may want to start on readings for week 9)
Spring Break March 4-12
Week 8. MIDTERM EXAM (readings for week 9):
*Kelly, pp. 99-110, 161-203
*Krebs and Davies pp. 120-174
Gowdy, read Leacock (pp. 139-164)
Review Begon et al. 313-368
Additional Readings:
Cashdan, E. (1992) Spatial Organization and Habitat Use. In Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior, edited by E. Smith and B. Winterhalder, pp. 237-266. Aldine, New York.
*Dyson-Hudson, R. and E.A. Smith (1978). Human Territoriality: An Ecological Reassessment. American Anthropologist 80:21-41.
*Hurtado, A., and K. Hill (1989) Experimental Studies of Tool Efficiency among the Machiguenga Women and Implications for Root-Digging Foragers. Journal of Anthropological Research 45:207-217.
Mithen, S.J. (1989). Modeling Hunter-Gatherer Decision Making: Complementing Optimal Foraging Theory. Human Ecology 17:59-83.
Stephens, D.W. (1990). Risk and Incomplete Information in Behavioral Ecology. In Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies, edited by E. Cashdan, pp. 19-46. Westview, Boulder.
Winterhalder, B. (1986). Diet Choice, Risk and Food Sharing in a Stochastic Environment. Journal of Ethnobiology 6:205-223
Week 9. (readings to be discussed on week 10):
*Kelly, pp. 205-292 (take plenty of time with this chapter)
Krebs and Davies pp. 175-243
Review Begon et al. pp. 775-827
Video: Nomads of the Rainforest
Additional Reading:
*Winterhalder, B. (1993). Work, Resources, and Population in Foraging Societies. Man 28:321-340.
Week 10. (readings to be discussed on week 11):
*Krebs and Davies pp.244-290
Video: Nanook of the North
Additional Reading to be discussed on 11:
*O’Connell, J.F. (1987). Alyawara Site Structure and Its Archaeological Implications. American Antiquity 52:74-108.
*Whitelaw, Todd (1991). Some Dimensions of Variability in the Social Organization of Community Space Among Foragers. In Ethnoarchaeological Approaches to Mobile Campsites, edited Gamble and Boismier, pp. 139-188
Week 11. (readings to be discussed on week 12):
*Kelly, pp. 111-160
Review Begon et al. pp. 861-912
Video: Baka: People of the Forest
Additional Readings:
Binford, L.R. (1977). Forty-seven trips: A Case-Study in the Character of Archaeological Formation Process. In Stone Tools as Cultural Markers, edited by R.V.S. Wright, pp. 24-36. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra.
*Binford, L.R. The Archaeology of Place. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 1(1):5-31.
Week 12. (readings to be discussed on week 13):
*Kelly, pp. 293-344
Krebs and Davies pp. 291-348
Video: Peoples of the Great Plains, Part I: Buffalo People and Dog Days
Additional Readings:
*Thomas, D.H. (1983) The Archaeology of Monitor Valley: 1. Epistemology. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. 58(1). Read Chapters 4-5 pp.40-91.
*Jochim, M. (1991) Archaeology as Long-Term Ethnography. American Anthropologist 93:308-321.
Week 13. (readings to be discussed on week 14):
*Krebs and Davies pp. 349-374
Gowdy, read Burch (pp. 201-217); Lee (pp. 165-200); and *Yellen (pp. 223-235).
Jackson, J.E. (1994). Becoming Indians: The Politics of Tukanoan Ethnicity. In Amazonian Indians: From Prehistory to the Present, edited by A. Roosevelt, pp. 383-406. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Asch, M.I. (1982). Dene Self-determination and the study of Hunter-Gatherers in the Modern World. In Politics and History in Band Societies, edited by E. Leacock and R. Lee, pp. 347-371. Cambridge University Press.
Feit, H,A. (1982). The Future of hunters within Nation-States: Anthropology and the James Bay Cree. In Politics and History in Band Societies, edited by E. Leacock and R. Lee, pp. 373-411. Cambridge University Press.
Video: Peoples of the Great Plains, Part 2: The Coming of the Horses, the White Man and the Rifle
Week 14. (reading to be discussed on week 15):
*Krebs and Davies 375-386
*Blumler, Mark A. (1996). Ecology, Evolutionary Theory and Agricultural Origins. In The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia, edited by D.R. Harris, pp. 25-50. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington .
Video: Ishi, the Last Yahi
Week 15. Complete term paper.
Video: Nai: Story of a !Kung Woman
SUMMARY OF KEY DATES/DEADLINES:
Wednesday 19 January – First Class
Wednesday 16 February – In-Class presentation
4-12 March – Spring Break
Wed. March 15 – Midterm Exam
Friday 5 May, 5:00 pm – Final version Term Paper due
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