yup, that's much of her most interesting thesis. She further helped me understand what's going on with the romanticization of native american/First Peoples in regards to issue of nature--the creation of the "eco-indian" is a bizarre invention largely of white academia, and no closer to the truth than any Noble Savage myth.

She also addresses the information I've read before in my anthro of food research regarding the inherent sexism in the analysis of data about "hunting" and "gathering," which applies to paleo and LC eaters as it skews the understanding of just how much meat is in HG diets. That is, "hunting" is what men go and do, by definition and "gathering" is what women do, by definition, even if it means the women are shooting game, fishing, netting birds, gathering insects, and otherwise providing protein foods. Interestingly enough, women end up providing 60-85% of the food HG tribes eat (big game hunting is often unsuccessful and the men come back with nothing but fish stories). If in an argument against LC or paleo eating, someone says "80%" of HG diets are vegetables, what they may be saying is they've read that 80% of HG diets are "gathered"; because of the bizarre defintions of hunting and gathering by anthropologists, "gathering" means woman-hunted, and so they are all eating over 50% animal products.

Anyway, fascinating book and well worth a read for any paleo eater. Thanks for responding, amie.