@inbook{8106555d12e642a1ba2797ac9cf1b864,
title = "Defining hunter-gatherers: Enlightenment, Romantic, and Social Evolutionary Perspectives",
abstract = "A concept of the hunter-gatherer similar to the one we possess today, and more specifically a concept of hunter-gatherer society, emerged during European Enlightenment. Before that time, the idea of a {\textquoteleft}hunter-gatherer{\textquoteright} was subsumed under an idea of human nature or natural humanity. The existence of hunter-gatherer society was predicated on a theory of society in which economics became a defining attribute, and this came to be the case during the eighteenth century, especially in Scotland. In the Romantic period, interest in the hunter-gatherer as a category waned. Nevertheless, the idea re-emerged among successors to the Romantic tradition, and in particular, in German-language and American anthropological traditions. Ultimately, the idea of hunter-gatherers gained prominence among evolutionists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is this tradition that we inherit in modern hunter-gatherer studies.",
keywords = "enlightenment, romantic period, evolutionist",
author = "Alan Barnard",
year = "2014",
month = apr,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199551224.013.011",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-19-955122-4",
series = "Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "43--54",
editor = "Vicki Cummings and Peter Jordan and Marek Zvelebil",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers",
address = "United States",
}