Hunting and gathering

Widlok, Thomas

doi:10.29164/20hunt

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“…The more we learn through historical reconstructions, the shibboleth that in the distant past there was a rigid division of labour in which all men were hunters and all women were gatherers has proved less accurate than some firm believers in the gender binary wanted to believe. It now appears clear that women, too, participated to a far greater extent in hunting, and men in gathering, and that cultural bias may have contributed to looking back at the past through contemporary gender prisms (Widlok 2020).…”

Section: Sex and Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Masculinity

Gutmann¹,

Stein²,

Robbins³

et al. 2021

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Section: Sex and Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Masculinity

Gutmann¹,

Stein²,

Robbins³

et al. 2021

CEA

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“…The women generally collected plant foods and water, while the men went out to hunt, a differentiation that probably also reflected the breastfeeding and the long period of nurture that human infants required (Ember 1978). However, there are some doubts about inferring the social structure of hunter-gatherers of prehistoric times from the life of today’s hunter-gatherers (Widlock 2020). The egalitarian nature of their society can be seen in the few groups that survive as hunter-gatherers until recent times like the !Kung in the Kalahari Desert.…”

Section: Energy In Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy, climate and structural change

Desai¹

2021

Contributions to Indian Sociology

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The study of human history suggests that the sources of the energy used to sustain production and consumption are the defining determinants of the productive structure, and by implication of the social structure. This article assesses the economic and sociopolitical changes that one can expect because of the major changes in energy sources required to tackle the threat of global warming. It spells out what we know at present about the risks of climate change arising from global warming, how they are being addressed at present and how the measures that are contemplated at present to cope with the threat of climate change will transform the global energy economy and why this makes possible a substantially more decentralised economy. But it also qualifies this vision and deals with the hurdles that will be faced in the structural transition.

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“…Cooperatives have posed a variety of interesting questions since social theory first began engaging with them. They seem to supercede the antithesis between bosses and workers, something associated either with dreams about an egalitarian future (as in Marx) or with an original affluent society of people that work together in small groups of hunter-gatherers (see Widlok 2020). Cooperatives have also been identified by many, including anthropologists, as a form of 'industrial democracy' (Holmström 1989), an idea that points to the desire of making an economy democratic, egalitarian, and participatory.…”

Section: Key Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%