Hunter-Gatherer Studies and the Millennium: A Look Forward (And Back)

Like the subjects of its study, the field of hunter-gatherers has shown a remarkable capacity for survival. Making two thousand years on the Christian calender may have no necessary resonance with the calendrical systems of the Evenki, the Nayaka, the Arrente, or the Cree. Nevertheless as hunter-gatherers (along with everybody else) are absorbed into global culture, it is approprite that we take stock of foragers' present condition and future...