Chapter-Related Readings

Recent discussion of the different adaptive strategies and their political correlates.

Bates, D. G.. (2001). Human Adaptive Strategies: Ecology, Culture, and Politics. 2nd ed.. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Based on 10 years of research in a nomadic Middle Eastern community, this study examines forces of "modernization," including a shift from herding to cash employment and the changing role of women.

Chatty, D.. (1996). Mobile Pastoralists: Development Planning and Social Change in Oman. New York: Columbia University Press.

Presents Cohen's economic typology of adaptive strategies and uses it to organize a valuable set of essays on culture and adaptation.

Cohen, Y.. (1974). Man in Adaptation: The Cultural Present, 2nd ed.. Chicago: Aldine.

Reference essays in economic anthropology.

Gudeman, S., ed.. (1999). Economic Anthropology. Northhampton, MA: E. Elgar.

Volume I examines history and social change among foragers. Volume II looks at their property, ideology, and power relations. These broad regional surveys illuminate current issues and debates.

Ingold, T., D. Riches, and J. Woodburn. (1991). Hunters and Gatherers. New York: Berg (St. Martin’s).

How peasants live today, in post-Cold War nation-states.

Kearney, M.. (1996). Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Perspective. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Africa's hunter-gatherers, their adaptations, social life, and variety.

Kent, S.. (1996). Cultural Diversity among Twentieth-Century Foragers: An African Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Account of well-known San foragers, by one of their principal ethnographers.

Lee, R. B.. (1993). The Dobe Ju/’hoansi, 2nd ed.. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.

Indispensable reference work on foragers.

Lee, R. B., and R. H. Daly. (1999). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Articles on economic features of foraging, tribal, peasant, state, and industrial societies.

Plattner, S., ed.. (1989). Economic Anthropology. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Pastoral nomads in varied contemporary settings.

Salzman, P. C., and J. G. Galaty, eds.. (1990). Nomads in a Changing World. Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale.

Environmentally and socially sustainable agriculture in today's world.

Srivastava, J., N. J. H. Smith, and D. A. Forno. (1998). Integrating Biodiversity in Agricultural Intensification: Toward Sound Practices. Washington, DC: World Bank.

An up-to-date introduction to economic anthropology

Wilk, R. R.. (1996). Economies and Cultures: An Introduction to Economic Anthropology. Boulder, CO: Westview.

A revisionist view of the San, in the context of colonialism and the world system

Wilmsen, R.. (1989). Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

This examination of a pastoral economy also weaves in information on gender and "race".

Young, W. C.. (1996). The Rashaayada Bedouin: Arab Pastoralists of Eastern Sudan. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.

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