A Cross-Cultural Summary: Hunter-Gatherers

HRAF Press • New Haven, CT • Published In • Pages: ??•
By Textor, Robert B.

Abstract

Textor summarizes cross-cultural findings on societies where subsistence is primarily by 'food gathering' which includes hunting, fishing, and gathering.

Note

Hunter-gatherers is a section of A Cross-Cultural Summary. Additionally, following each hypothesis are two sets of numbers enclosed in parenthesis: the first is the identification for the dependent variable and the second is the independent variable identification.

Samples

Sample Used Coded Data Comment
Ethnographic Atlas (EA)Previously Coded

Hypotheses (9)

HypothesisSupported
Hunter-gatherers tend to have non-fixed settlements (51, 44).Supported
Hunter-gatherers tend to live in communities without a city or town and with less than 200 people (51, 81).Supported
Hunter-gatherers tend to have lower social complexity (51,91).Supported
Hunter-gatherers tend to have national jurisdiction without any levels of hierarchy (51, 96).Supported
Hunter-gatherers tend not to have social stratification (51, 102).Supported
Hunter-gatherers tend to rely on non-monetary economic exchange (51, 132).Supported
Hunter-gatherers tend not to believe in a high god (51, 426).Supported
Hunter-gatherers, if they have class stratification, tend to base it on wealth (51, 106).Supported
Hunter-gatherers tend not to be exclusively patrilineal (51, 186).Supported
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