Contents
VOLUME I HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE
AND FOOD
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii
Overview to Four Volumes: Sustainable Agriculture and Food xv
Editorial introduction to Volume I 1
Part I Before Agriculture
1 What Hunters Do for a Living, or, How to Make Out on Scarce Resources 17
R. B. Lee
2 Foragers and Others 41
R. B. Lee and R. Daly
3 Mind 73
H. Brody
4 Environmental and Health Benefits of Hunting Lifestyles and Diets
for the Innu of Labrador 107
C. Samson and J. Pretty
5 Language: A Resource for Nature 136
L. Maffi
Part II Early Agriculture
6 Our Vanishing Genetic Resources 159
J. R. Harlan
7 Oriental Despotism 168
K. Wittfogel
8 Marcus Cato on Agriculture 197
Marcus Porcius Cato
Marcus Terentius Varro on Agriculture 202
Marcus Terentius Varro
9 Agroecological Farming Systems in China 208
Li Wenhua