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Energy source, protein metabolism, and hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies
(Elsevier, 1983-03)
During late winter and spring, hunter-gatherers in temperate, subarctic, and arctic environments often relied on diets that provided marginal or inadequate caloric intakes. During such periods, particularly when stored ...
Seasonality, resource stress, and food sharing in so-called "egalitarian" foraging societies
(Elsevier, 1990-06)
Most discussions of food sharing among so-called "egalitarian" hunters and gatherers implicitly assume that, because all adult members of a group participate in the network of sharing, all must therefore be receiving ...
Oleneostrovski mogilnik: Reconstructing the social and economic organization of prehistoric foragers in Northern Russia
(Elsevier, 1984-03)
Oleneostrovski mogilnik (Red Deer Island cemetery) in Karelia, USSR, is the largest known Mesolithic-age cemetery in the Boreal zone, containing the remains of at least 170 individual interments. An analysis of mortuary ...
Grey Suit or Brown Carhartt: Narrative Transition, Relocation and Reorientation in the Lives of Corporate Refugees
(Journal of Anthropological Research, 2006-09)
This article examines relocation stories of people who leave behind corporate work culture, relocate from metropolitan areas to small towns and rural places and attempt to reorient themselves to work and family obligations. ...
From sweet potatoes to God Almighty: Roy Rappaport on being a hedgehog
(American Ethnologist, 2007-08)
Recognized as a principle figure in ecological anthropology, Roy Rappaport is best known for Pigs for the Ancestors (1968). His work in the anthropology of religion has received less attention. Least acknowledged is ...