Thomas Widlok obtained his PhD in Social Anthropology at the LSE and has taught anthropology in the universities of London, Cologne, Kyoto, and Heidelberg. He was a member of the Max Planck Cognitive Anthropology Research Group in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Currently he is a research staff member at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Preface

Introduction
Wolde Gossa Tadesse

Chapter 1. Power and Property in Twenty-First Century Foragers: A Critical Examination
Richard Borshay Lee

Chapter 2. Money Makes the World Go Round? Commodity Sharing, Gifting and Exchange in the Baka (Pygmy) Economy
Axel Köhler

Chapter 3. Whose Forest Is It Anyway? Mbendjele Yaka Pygmies, the Ndoki Forest and the Wider World
Jerome Lewis

Chapter 4. The Significance of Trade in an Immediate-Return Society: The Batek Case
Kirk Endicott

Chapter 5. The Road to Equality? Landscape Transformation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia
Lye Tuck-Po

Chapter 6. Equalising Processes, Processes of Discrimination and the Forest People of Central Africa
Justin Kenrick

Chapter 7. Delay, Return and Hierarchy: Six Aboriginal Marriage Systems Compared
Ian Keen

Chapter 8.8 The Power of Women in an Ostensibly Male-Dominated Agro-Pastoral Society
Jean Lydall

Chapter 9. The Incorporated Ground: The Contemporary Work of Distribution in the Kutubu Oil Project Area, Papua New Guinea
James F. Weiner

Chapter 10. Sharing the Land: Kalahari San Property Rights and Resource Management
Robert K. Hitchcock

Chapter 11. The Professionalisation and Commoditisation of the Contemporary Bushman Trance Dancer and Trance Dance, and the Decline of Sharing
Mathias Guenther

Chapter 12. From Humility to Lordship in Island Southeast Asia
Thomas Gibson

Notes on Contributors

Index