The Hunting Peoples

by Carleton S. Coon, Aldren A. Watson (Illustrator)

DIFFERENT DJ than MAIN Light brown background w/ purple and orange printing fore-ground. STATED FIRST EDITION. Sept. 1971 Atlantic/Little/Brown hardcover, Carleton S. Coon (A North Africa The Anthropologist as OSS Agent 1941-1943). Ten thousand years ago, before agriculture and husbandry, all men lived by the spear and arrow. Some men still do the hunting people. THE HUNTING PEOPLES describe the modes of life of all the living hunters of the world. Written by one of the country's foremost anthropologists, it examines in vivid detail the cultures and technologies of the Pygmies and Bushmen, Eskimos and Australian aborigines, and tracks down other hunters, less numerous and more obscure, in the Andaman Islands Tierra del Fuego, India, Japan, Northwestern America, and elsewhere in both the old world and the new. - Amazon

Genres: History, Anthropology

413 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Adam Chandler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Coon's thorough treatment of hunter-gatherer peoples in the 20th century. It is useful as a general guide to various peoples and the illustrations are interesting, but the book jumps around from culture to culture so it would be unwise to declare unity of ideology, practice, etc. of hunter-gatherers as Coon seems to slip into. Also problematic is the notion (not unique to Coon) that ancient hunter-gatherer cultures must have acted like the modern ones we observe. The fact of the matter is that we do not have historical documentation of those cultures so we should not presume that they mimic the ones of today.