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6. Political Anthropology: When Communism Works

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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Immediate Return Hunting

Immediate return foraging involves small bands of about ten to a hundred people who make temporary camps. They hunt small animals or fish that they eat on the spot or bring back to share with their families. Cannibalism is quite rare in europe, but in times of famine it predictably goes up. People will also engage in trade and exchange with neighboring non hunter gather cultures for things like agricultural foods and metal tools that they don't produce themselves.

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