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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

Author(s)
Lavi, Noa  
Rudge, Alice  
Warren, Graeme  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/12796
Date Issued
2024-01-16
Date Available
2022-04-11T16:25:29Z
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, bush-craft and survivalism. We identify how the imagined hunter-gatherer in these debates is constructed through processes of commodification, which 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.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Journal
Current Anthropology
Volume
65
Issue
1
Copyright (Published Version)
2024 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Subjects

Hunter-gatherer

Stereotype

Rewilding

Colonialism

Commodification

Nostalgia

Prehistory

Neolithic Revolution

DOI
10.1086/728528
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0011-3204
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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