Talk given to the Radical Anthropology Group at Daryll Forde Seminar Room, Anthropology Building, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW on 6 February 2018. James Woodburn, one of the world’s leading hunter-gatherer ethnographers, describes his first encounters and how he got to know the Hadza people of Tanzania, with whom he has worked for more than sixty years. The Hadza are immediate return hunter-gatherers, meaning they don’t store food. The practice bow-and-arrow hunting in the African savanna environment where humans are thought to have first evovled and are politically egalitarian, that is, they don't have chiefs or leaders and, while men and women observe a division of labour, they have equal status and power in Hadza society.
