List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Robert K. Hitchcock

Megan Biesele

Silence and Other Misunderstandings: Russian Anthropology, Western Hunter-Gatherer Debates and Siberian Peoples

Peter P. Schweitzer

I. Warfare and Conflict Resolution

Visions of Conflict, Conflicts of Vision among Contemporary Dene Tha

Jean-Guy A. Goulet

Warfare among the Hunters and Fishermen of Western Siberia

Liudmila A. Chindina

Homicide and Aggression among the Agta of Eastern Luzon, the Philippines, 1910--1985

Marcus B. Griffin

Conflict Management in a Modern Inuit Community

Jean L. Briggs

Wars and Chiefs among the Samoyeds and Ugrians of Western Siberia

Andrei V. Golovnev

Ritual Violence among the Peoples of Northeastern Siberia

Elena P. Batianova

Patterns of War and Peace among Complex Hunter-Gatherers: The Case of the Northwest Coat of North America

Leland Donald

II. Resistence, Identity, and the State

The Concept of an International Ethnoecological Refuge

Olga Murashko

Aboriginal Responses to Mining in Australia: Economic Aspirations, Cultural Revival, and the Politics of Indigenous Protest

David S. Trigger

Political Movement, Legal Reformation, and Transformation of Ainu Identity

Takashi Irimoto

Tracking the ``Wild Tungus'' in Taimyr: Identity, Ecology, and Mobile Economies in Arctic Siberia

David G. Anderson

Marginality with a Difference, or How the Huaorani Preserve Their Sharing Relations and Naturalize Outside Powers

Laura Rival

III. Ecology, Demography, and Market Issues

``Interest in the Present'' in the Nationwide Monetary Economy: The Case of Mbuti Hunters in Zaire

Mitsuo Ichikawa

Dynamics of Adaptation to Market Economy among the Ayoreode of Northwest Paraguay

Volker von Bremen

Can Hunter-Gatherers Live in Tropical Rain Forests? The Pleistocene Island Melanesian Evidence

Matthew Spriggs

The Ju/'hoansi San under Two States: Impacts of the South West African Administration and the Government of the Republic of Namibia

Megan Biesele

Robert K. Hitchcock

Russia's Northern Indigenous Peoples: Are They Dying Out?

Dmitrii D. Bogoiavlenskii

IV. Gender and Representation

Gender Role Transformation among Australian Aborigines

Robert Tonkinson

Names That Escape the State: Hai//om Naming Practices versus Domination and Isolation

Thomas Widlok

Central African Government's and International NGOs' Perceptions of Baka Pygmy Development

Barry S. Hewlett

The Role of Women in Mansi Society

Elena G. Fedorova

Peacemaking Ideology in a Headhunting Society: Hudhud, Women's Epic of the Ifugao

Maria V. Staniukovich

V. World-View and Religious Determination

Painting as Politics: Exposing Historical Processes in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art

Thomas A. Dowson

Gifts from the Immortal Ancestors: Cosmology and Ideology of Jahai Sharing

Cornelia M. I. van der Sluys

Time in the Traditional World-View of the Kets: Materials on the Bear Cult

Evgeniia A. Alekseenko

Lexicon as a Source for Understanding Sel'kup Knowledge of Religion

Alexandra A. Kim

Notes on Contributors

Appendix: A Note on the Spelling of Siberian Ethnonyms

Index