Analyzing and Celebrating Survival in a Globalizing World: Hunters, Others and Us

Highlights of the conference were hearing from Ainu people about their urgent situation, and also listening to the important contributions of third world scholars. An emerging theme of the conference was the active survival of hunting and gathering societies and of diverse cultural traditions in a globalizing world. I suggest that these contemporaneous experiences of challenges and renewals in the midst of globalization unite the lives of …