TY - BOOK ID - 78490315 TI - Why Forage? : Hunters and Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century AU - Kramer, Karen AU - Codding, Brian F. PY - 2016 SN - 0826356974 9780826356970 0826356966 9780826356963 9780826356963 PB - Albuquerque, New Mexico : University of New Mexico Press Published in Association with School for Advanced Research Press, DB - UniCat KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. KW - Economic anthropology. KW - Subsistence hunting. KW - Subsistence farming. KW - Hunting and gathering societies. KW - Commerce, Primitive KW - Economics, Primitive KW - Economics KW - Ethnology KW - Subsistence harvest of wildlife KW - Subsistence use of wildlife KW - Hunting KW - Subsistence economy KW - Wildlife utilization KW - Hunting and gathering societies KW - Farming, Subsistence KW - Subsistence agriculture KW - Subsistence harvest of farm produce KW - Subsistence use of farm produce KW - Agriculture KW - Food gathering societies KW - Gathering and hunting societies KW - Hunter-gatherers KW - Hunting, Primitive KW - Subsistence hunting UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78490315 AB - " Foraging persists as a viable economic strategy both in remote regions and within the bounds of developed nation-states. Given the economic alternatives available, why do some groups choose to maintain their hunting and gathering lifeways? Through a series of detailed case studies, the contributors to this volume examine the decisions made by modern-day foragers to sustain a predominantly hunting and gathering way of life. What becomes clear is that hunter-gatherers continue to forage because the economic benefits of doing so are high relative to the local alternatives and, perhaps more importantly, because the social costs of not foraging are prohibitive; in other words, hunter-gatherers value the social networks built through foraging and sharing more than the potential marginal gains of a new means of subsistence. Why Forage? shows that hunting and gathering continues to be a viable and vibrant way of life even in the twenty-first century."-- ER -