The Enduring Pursuit: Land, Time, and Social Relationships in Anthropological Models of Hunter-Gatherers and in Subarctic Hunters' Images

This paper examines recent models that have sought to character­ize the distinctive features of hunter-gatherer societies that distin­guish them from small-scale agricultural or pastoral societies. The survey also shows that hunter-gatherers are repeatedly portrayed as living in a distinctive temporal frame, one in which the juxtaposition of a lengthy past and an instantaneous present obviate an enduring present oriented to a future shaped by …