Social Classification of Hunter-Gatherers

An Evolutionary Perspective

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ID6135915
AuthorsHitoshi Watanabe (0000-0002-5302-4175, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume106
Issue2
Pages64-76
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0918-7960 • E-ISSN: 1348-8570
PublisherAnthropological Society of Nippon (PUBLISHER • JP)
DOI10.1537/ase.106.64
OpenAlexW2052539324
LanguageEN
References cited20

Based on my own work among the Ainu in northern Hokkaido and ethnographic literatures for many modern hunting-gathering societies in northern Pacific rim in particular, this paper presents that such societies are classified into “Every-Male-the-Hunter” type and “Not-Every-Male-the-Hunter” type, which are distinctive from each other in their ecological and socioeconomic adaptive mechanisms; here, hunter refers to a big-game hunter. This occupational differentiation of males, reflecting different levels of sociocultural complexity, is judged to play a significant role in social evolution. This classification is considered in relation to hominization process

Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Perspective (graphical · Relation (database · Sociocultural evolution · Sociocultural perspective · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Demography · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Language and cultural evolution · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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