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Lavi, Noa, Rudge, Alice, Warren, Graeme, Artemova, O. Yu, Athreya, Sheela, Ackermann, Rebecca R., Barnard, Alan, Basinyi, Stella, Fenton, Lisa, Playdon, Zoë, Giraldo Herrera, Cesar E., Marks, Jonathan, Nyland, Astrid J., Porr, Martin |
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Current Anthropology; Feb2024, Vol. 65 Issue 1, p72-99, 28p |
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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] |
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