Land Filled with Flies
A Political Economy of the Kalahari
420 pages, 6 x 9
©
1989
Paper $35.00
ISBN: 9780226900155
Published September 1989
Acknowlegments
Introduction
1. The Evolution of Illusion
Man Hunter: A Nineteenth-Century Legacy
The Received Past
Search for Authenticity
2. The Poverty of Misappropriated Theory
Return to Authenticity
Revival of the Primitive Critique
As They Begin to Produce, So We Begin to Know Them
Foragers Come to Class
The Uses of Ecology
3. The Past Recaptured
The Recovered Past
The Recorded Past
4. The Past Entrenched
Consolidation of the Underclass
The Underclass Solidified
5. The Ideology of Person and Place
Concepts of Possession
Kinship and Tenure
Convergence of Indigenous Systems
Coherence in Concepts of Tenure Systems
6. The Political Construction of Production Relations
Economic Correlates of Foraging and Food
Allocation of Access to the Means of Production
Production as a Function of Emergent Status
Structural Divisions in an Appearance of Equality
Kinship as Practice
Class Characteristics of Zhu Social Relations
7. What It Means to Be Excluded
The Emergence of Ethnicity as a Central Logic
Subordinate Tiers in the Labor Reserve
Contemporary Relations of Production
Value Flow in an Uncertain Cash Economy
The Political Economy of Physiology and Physique
The Direction of Intention
Notes
References
Index
Awards
- Melville J. Herskovits Award
- Edgar Graham Book Prize
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