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Williams and Norgate, London and Edinburgh. , and Margaret McArthur 1960 The food quest and the time factor in Aboriginal economic life. In Anthropology and nutrition: records ofthe American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnbem Land, 19480101. 2), edited by Charles Percy Mountford, pp. 145-194. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. MacKnight. Campbell C. 1976 The ~age to Marege: Macassan trepangers in northern Australia. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. Martin. John F. 1983 Optimal foraging theory: a review of some models and their applications.
Chinese beliefs in male potency affected the fortunes of Aborigines on the north Australian coast, where trepang was harvested (see MacKnight 1976: Schrire this volume), as well as the lives of hunters in East Africa, who shipped out whole rhinoceros horns through middlemen at Mombasa for centuries. Asian demand for rhinoceros horn maintained hunters in Borneo's forests, their taste for tortoiseshell affected the Australian Aborigines O. Urry, personal communication, 1980), and their need for forest products may indeed be the raison d'etre of some of the hunters of Kalimantan (Hoffman, this volume).
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