Australia. Ian Keen (2004, above) gives bibliographies for seven societies: the Ngarinyin of the Northwest, the Yolngu of Arnhem Land, the Sandbeach of Cape York, the Yuwaaliyaay of interior New South Wales, the Kunai of the southeast, the Pitjantjatjara of the Western Desert, and the Wiil and Minong of the Southwest.
Eurasia. Agta of the Philippines: Thomas Headland, Why Foragers Do Not Become Farmers: A Historical Study of a Changing Ecosystem and Its Effect on a Negrito Hunter-Gatherer Group in the Philippines (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii, 1986); John Early and Thomas Headland, Population Dynamics of a Philippine Rain Forest People: The San Ildefonso Agta (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998). Ainu of Japan: Hitoshi Watanabe, The Ainu Ecosystem: Environment and Group Structure (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973). Andaman Islanders of the Bay of Bengaclass="underline" A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, The Andaman Islanders (Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1948); Lidio Cipriani, The Andaman Islanders (New York: Praeger, 1966). Kirghiz of Afghanistan and Nganasan of Siberia: see bibliography by Johnson and Earle (2000, above).
Africa. Hadza of Tanzania: Frank Marlowe, The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010); Kristen Hawkes, James O’Connell, and Nicholas Blurton Jones, “Hadza children’s foraging: juvenile dependency, social arrangements and mobility among hunter-gatherers,” Current Anthropology 36: 688–700 (1995), “Hadza women’s time allocation, offspring provisioning and the evolution of post-menopausal lifespans,” Current Anthropology 38: 551–577 (1997), and “Hunting and nuclear families: some lessons from the Hadza about men’s work,” Current Anthropology 42: 681–709 (2001). !Kung of southwestern Africa: Nancy Howell, Demography of the Dobe !Kung, 2nd ed. (New York: Aldine de Gruiter, 2000) and Life Histories of the !Kung: Food, Fatness, and Well-being over the Life-span (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010); Richard Lee, The !Kung San: Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979); Lorna Marshall, The !Kung of Nyae Nyae (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976); Marjorie Shostak, Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981); Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Harmless People, rev. ed. (New York: Vintage Books, 1989). Nuer of the Sudan: E. E. Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer of the Sudan: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940). Pygmies of Central Africa (consisting actually of at least 15 ethnolinguistic groups of African forest foragers): Colin Turnbull, The Forest People (New York: Touchstone, 1962), for the Mbuti group; Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, ed., African Pygmies (Orlando: Academic Press, 1986); Barry Hewlett, Intimate Fathers: The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991) and Bonnie Hewlett, Listen, Here Is a Story: Ethnographic Life Narratives from Aka and Ngandu Women of the Congo Basin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), for the Aka group; and Barry Hewlett and Jason Fancher, “Central Africa hunter-gatherer research traditions,” in Vicki Cummings et al., eds., Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press), for an annotated bibliography. Turkana of Kenya: see bibliography by Johnson and Earle (2000, above).
North America. Calusa of Florida: Randolph Widmer, The Evolution of the Calusa: A Nonagricultural Chiefdom on the Southwest Florida Coast (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988). Chumash of the California mainland: Lynn Gamble, The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting among Complex Hunter-Gatherers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). Island Chumash of California: Douglas Kennett, The Island Chumash: Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). Iñupiat of northwest Alaska: Ernest Burch Jr., The World System of the Iñupiaq Eskimos: Alliance and Conflict (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005). Alaska North Slope Inuit, Great Basin Shoshone, and Northwest Coast Indians: see bibliographies by Johnson and Earle (2000, above).
South America. Ache of Paraguay: Kim Hill and A. Magdalena Hurtado, Ache Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1996). Machiguenga of Peru: see bibliography by Johnson and Earle (2000, above). Piraha of Braziclass="underline" Daniel Everett, Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (New York: Pantagon, 2008). Siriono of Bolivia: Allan Holmberg, Nomads of the Long Bow: The Siriono of Eastern Bolivia (Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, 1969). Yanomamo of Brazil and Venezuela: Napoleon Chagnon, Yanomamo, 5th ed. (New York: Wadsworth, 1997); and bibliography by Johnson and Earle (2000, above).
References applicable to the Prologue: At the Airport
Gavin Souter, New Guinea: The Last Unknown (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1964) provides a good account of the early exploration of New Guinea, in a book ending a dozen years before Papua New Guinea became independent. My online references for Chapter 1 give citations for books describing and illustrating first contacts between Australians and New Guinea Highlanders.
As for why Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies are WEIRD by the standards of more traditional societies over the rest of the world, Joseph Henrich, Steven Heine, and Ara Norenzayan explain the reasons briefly in “Most people are not WEIRD,” Nature 466: 29 (2010), and at more length in “The Weirdest people in the world?,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33: 61–135 (2010).