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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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Lavi, Noa 
Rudge, Alice 
Warren, Graeme 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/12796
Date Issued
01 November 2023
Date Available
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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, 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
Keywords
  • Hunter-gatherer

  • Stereotype

  • Rewilding

  • Colonialism

  • Commodification

  • Nostalgia

  • Prehistory

  • Neolithic Revolution

Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0011-3204
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/
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