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Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer: How an Idea about Our Ancestral Condition Is Recruited into Popular Debate in Britain and Ireland.
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Current Anthropology . Feb2024, Vol. 65 Issue 1, p72-99. 28p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- We examine how hunter-gatherers are imagined in popular debate in Britain and Ireland, demonstrating that aspects of hunter-gatherer lifestyles are presented as both the antithesis and antidote to perceived crises in contemporary society. We apply an anthropological lens to four areas of popular discourse: physical health, mental health, bushcraft, and survivalism. We identify how the imagined hunter-gatherer in these debates is constructed through processes of commodification that often reveal nostalgic colonial values regarding "human nature." This repeats and sustains damaging perceptions of hunter-gatherer lifeways. It also highlights how archaeological, anthropological, and other academic research on hunter-gatherers is manifest in popular debates that reinforce assumptions about human nature and the significance of our evolutionary past within a neoliberal, colonialist context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00113204
- Volume :
- 65
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Current Anthropology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175602542
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1086/728528