This article examines Siberia's increasingly important role in the study of the emergence of pottery across northern Eurasia. The world's earliest pottery comes from Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer sites in East Asia. This material is typically seen as disconnected from later pottery traditions in Europe, which are generally associated with sedentary farmers. However, new evidence suggests that Asian and European pottery traditions may be linked to a Hyperborean stream of hunter-gatherer pottery dispersals that spanned eastern and western Asia, and introduced pottery into the prehistoric societies of northern Europe. As a potential bridge between the eastern and western early pottery traditions, Siberia's prehistory is therefore set to play an increasingly central role in one of world archaeology's most important debates.
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Bridging the Boreal Forest
Siberian Archaeology and the Emergence of Pottery among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of Northern Eurasia
Kevin Gibbs and Peter Jordan
Urszula Markowska‐Manista
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2021
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 266–267 (1 total)
Conservation-Induced Resettlement
The Case of the Baka of Southeast Cameroon—A Variation on the Habitual Mobility–Immobility Nexus
Harrison Esam Awuh
. Making Hunter-Gatherers Farmers: The Sedentarization of a Mobile People What happens when a social group whose systems of production and self-sustenance based on transhumance (constant mobility) is forced into a sedentary lifestyle and when its
Why Begin with Aristotle?
Durkheim on Solidarity and Social Morphology
Mike Hawkins
Durkheim never repudiated or even revised the theory formulated in the Division, which was in its third edition by the time of the publication of his last major work. He did, however, admit privately to Mauss to having 'many hesitations' about bringing out a second edition, although he gave no indication of the nature of these reservations (1998a:277, 283). Furthermore his anthropological knowledge became more extensive after the publication of the Division, which is rather short on properly ethnographic materials (Lukes 1975:159; Allen 1995:49). It is not surprising, therefore, that his ideas concerning the social organisation of hunter-gatherer societies were modified.
In Durkheimian Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2004
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 21–37 (17 total)
Andrzej Rozwadowski, Brian Donahoe, Olga M. Cooke, Dmitri Funk, Iraida Nam, Christopher Hill, Tero Mustonen, Brad Paige, and David G. Anderson
Peter Jordan, Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia Andrzej Rozwadowski
Andrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva, Khanty: People of the Taiga: Surviving the 20th Century Brian Donahoe
Andrew A. Gentes, trans., Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich's “Sakhalin” Olga M. Cooke
Erich Kasten, Cultures and landscapes of the North-East Asia: 250 years of Russian-German research in ecology and culture of indigenous peoples of Kamchatka Dmitri Funk and Iraida Nam
Mertin I. Eren, Hunter-Gatherer Behavior: Human Response during the Younger Dryas Christopher Hill
Anna A. Sirina, Katanga Evenkis in the 20th Century and the Ordering of Their Life-World; Olga Ulturgasheva, Narrating the Future in Siberia: Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny Tero Mustonen
Charles Hartley, G. Bike Yazicioglu, and Adam T. Smith, The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia: Regimes and Revolutions Brad Paige
Benedict J. Colombi and James F. Brooks, Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon across the North Pacific David G. Anderson
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Andrzej Weber, M. Anne Katzenberg, and Olga I. Goriunova, eds., Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, A Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Cemetery on Lake Baikal, Siberia: Osteological Materials Margaret Streeter
Georg Wilhelm Steller, Steller’s History of Kamchatka: Collected Information Concerning the History of Kamchatka, Its Peoples, Their Manners, Names, Lifestyle, and Various Customary Practices. Dean Littlefield, Steller’s Island: Adventures of a Pioneer Naturalist in Alaska Timothy Heleniak
Alexander B. Dolitsky, Staraia Rossiia v sovremennoi Amerike: Russkie staroobriadtsy na Aliaske David Scheffel
Sew’jan I. Weinshtein, Geheimnisvolles Tuwa: Expeditionen in das Herz Asiens Aline Ehrenfried
A.A. Khisamutdinov, Tri stoletiia izucheniia Dalnego Vostoka (materialy k biobibliografii issledovatelei), vypusk 1 (1639–1939) Patricia Polansky
Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black, eds., Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804 Alexander Dolitsky
Ingeborg Hauenschild, Lexikon jakutischer Tierbezeichnungen Brigitte Pakendorf
Aurélie Godet, Andre Thiemann, Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Anne-Erita Berta, Giuseppe Tateo, Alexandra Schwell, Greca N. Meloni, and Lieke Wijnia
Jean-François Bert and Elisabetta Basso (eds) (2015), Foucault à Münsterlingen. À l’origine de l’Histoire de la folie (Paris: Éditions de l’EHESS), 285 pp., €24, ISBN 9782713225086.
Čarna Brković (2017), Managing Ambiguity: How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Oxford: Berghahn), 208 pp., $120.00/£85.00, ISBN 9781785334146.
William A. Douglass (2015), Basque Explorers in the Pacific Ocean (Reno: University of Nevada Press), 230 pp., $24.95, ISBN 9781935709602.
Peter Naccarato, Zachary Nowak and Elgin K. Eckert (eds) (2017), Representing Italy through Food (London: Bloomsbury Academic), 269 pp., £85, ISBN 9781474280419.
Bruce O’Neill (2017), The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order (Durham: Duke University Press), 280 pp., $25.95, ISBN 9780822363286.
Tomasz Rakowski (2016), Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness: An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland (Oxford: Berghahn), 332 pp., $130.00/£92.00, ISBN 9781785332401.
Antonio Sorge (2015), Legacies of Violence: History, Society, and the State in Sardinia (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 232 pp., $24.61, ISBN 9781442627291.
Helena Wulff (ed.) (2016), The Anthropologist as Writer: Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford: Berghahn), 288 pp., $130.00/£92.00, ISBN 9781785330186.
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 127–147 (20 total)
Book Reviewed in this article: Anderson, David G., and Eeva Berglund (eds). 2003. Ethnographies of conservation. Environmentalism and the distribution of privilege. Donovan, James M., and H. Edwin Anderson. 2003. Anthropology and law. Dyck, Noel, and Eduardo Archetti (eds.) 2003. Sport, dance and embodied identities. Gill, Tom. 2001. Men of uncertainty. The social organisation of day laborers in contemporary Japan. Gow, Peter. 2001. An Amazonian myth and its history. Herzfeld, Michael. 2004. The body impolitic. Artisans and artifice in the global hierarchy of value. Jolles, Carol Zane (with Elinor Mikaghaq Oozeva). 2002. Faith, food and family in a Yupik whaling community. Kent, Susan (ed.). 2002. Ethnicity, hunter‐gatherers and the ‘other’. Association or assimilation in Africa. Kertzer, David I., and Dominique Arel (eds.). 2002. Census and identity. The politics of race, ethnicity and language in national censuses. MacClancy, Jeremy. 2002. Exotic no more. Anthropology on the front lines. McCauley, Robert N., and Thomas Lawson (eds.). 2002. Bringing ritual to mind. Psychological foundations of cultural forms. Mendoza, Zoila S. 2000. Shaping society through dance. Mestizo ritual performance in the Peruvian Andes. Mykkänen, Juri. 2003. Inventing politics. A new political anthropology of the Hawaiian kingdom. Sciama, Lidia D. 2003. A Venetian island. Environment, history and change in Burano. Segalen, Martine (ed.). 2001. Ethnologie. Concepts et aires culturelles. Shehadeh, Lamia Rustum. 2003. The idea of women under fundamentalist Islam. Van den Boogaart, Ernst. 2003. Civil and corrupt Asia. Image and text in the Itinerario and Icones of Jan Huygen van Linschoten. Van der Veer, Peter. 2001. Imperial encounters. Religion and modernity in India and Britain. Washabaugh, William (ed.). 1998. The passion of music and dance. Body, gender and sexuality. Whitehead, Neil L. (ed.). 2003. Histories and historicities in Amazonia.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Oct 2004
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 373–394 (21 total)
The Hard Way
Volatility and Stability in the Brisbane River Delta
Veronica Strang
Abstract: Before European colonisation, the Brisbane River supported several indigenous language groups who, working with its natural variations in flow, were able to sustain stable hunter-gatherer lifeways for many millennia. In contrast, colonial settlers made strenuous efforts to control one of Australia’s largest and most unpredictable rivers, driven by aims to achieve social and material stability in what they saw as a hostile and adversarial environment. Part of the perceived threat was – and still is – the river’s ‘volatility’ and its tendency, from time to time, to send great surges of floodwater downstream. Brisbane’s contemporary inhabitants have had to consider how to engage with the non-human environment in ways that move beyond hard-line visions of command and control and embrace more convivial ideas about working with the river.
Résumé : Avant la colonisation européenne, la rivière Brisbane a assuré la subsistance de diverses populations indigènes qui, en travaillant avec les variations naturelles du courant, ont été en mesure de perpétuer un mode de vie chasseur-cueilleur pendant des siècles. A leur arrivée, les colons ont en revanche entrepris de maîtriser l’un des fleuves les plus imprévisibles d’Australie en aménageant le delta et en installant des barrages hydrauliques importants sur ses affluents. Ils ont ainsi mis en œuvre une vision particulière de l’ordre sur l’espace naturel, établi une cité portuaire autour du delta, l’ensemble étant guidé par un objectif de stabilité sociale et matériel contre ce qui était perçu comme un environnement hostile. Une dimension de la perception du danger était – et est toujours – la « volatilité » de la rivière et sa tendance, de temps en temps, à envoyer de très grandes quantités d’eau dans son embouchure, inondant ainsi la ville. Faisant écho à des situations similaires dans le monde, il s’est développé une contestation à la fois conceptuelle et matérielle de ces programmes d’ingénierie quand le contrôle qu’ils cherchent à garantir est rendu futile par la force hydraulique de la rivière.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–25 (24 total)
Dis/working with Diagrams
How Genealogies and Maps Obscure Nanoscale Worlds (a Hunter-Gatherer Case)
Nurit Bird-David
categories (e.g., hunter-gatherers, Amazonian societies, indigenous peoples). Surveying such intimate communities is logistically challenging, in some cases politically charged, and often conceptually murky. However, their order of size is undeniably and