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ID2939729
AuthorsJérôme Lewis (University College London, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume2
Issue3
Pages375-384
Publication date2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHunter Gatherer Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1476-4253 • E-ISSN: 2056-3264
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3828/hgr.2016.25
OpenAlexW2605735471
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Many hunter-gatherers today find themselves caught between the dominance of neoliberal perspectives on development and progress that focus on extractive opportunities for supplying markets with natural resources, and on conservationists’ views of landscapes as wildernesses that require protection from any human activity, apart from their own. This dual occupation of hunter-gatherer land in the Congo Basin is putting huge pressure on the BaYaka Pygmies’ and their neighbours’ lifestyles and livelihoods. After giving their views to camera in a short film (https://ishgr.org/hunter-gatherer-voices/), the article examines some of the underlying assumptions about environments that legitimate the current structural and actual violence experienced by these hunter-gatherers. The article ends with a request for more accounts of the pressures facing hunter-gatherers, so we better understand them, and to assist in thinking about what we might do to support this vital part of humanity’s cultural diversity

Agriculture · Archaeology · Diversity (politics) · Dominance (genetics) · Environmental ethics · Geography · Humanity · Livelihood · Natural resource · nobody · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cambodian History and Society · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

  • No thanks

    Open Access•Simon Hoyte, Felix Mangombe•People and Nature•2025

  • L’éducation des BaYaka

    Open Access•Daša Bombjaková, Lew-Levy et al.•Hunter Gatherer Research•2020

  • BaYaka education

    Open Access•Daša Bombjaková, Lew-Levy et al.•Hunter Gatherer Research•2020

  • Unintended impacts from forest certification

    Open Access•Jacqueline Doremus•Ecological Economics•2019

  • Cancelling' hunter-gatherers for the cause of twenty-first-century urbanism

    James M Van Lanen•Hunter Gatherer Research•2022

  • Soundscapes of infant care and infant-directed communication in two hunter-gatherer societies

    Jérôme Lewis, Ingrid Lewis et al.•Hunter Gatherer Research•2021

Unique citing works6
Citations per year0,86
Citation span2019 - 2025 (7)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 6
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