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It is popularly accepted by anthropologists and archeologists that hunting and fishing have been one of the “primitive” productive activities, in which human beings have long engaged for acquiring food and other daily materials to survive the surrounding severe environment. Many researchers generally considered them as components of “subsistence economy” or “natural economy” and analyzed them from a view point of the adaptation to and harmony with the natural environment. On the other hand, however, it is also well known that these activities have produced other kinds of products like surplus products and prestige goods, which should be analyzed as political and social issues, since even before the establishment of the modem capitalist economy. In this article, analyzing the change of their hunting and fishing equipment and techniques from the 18th to the 20th century, I will discuss the interrelation and interaction of the hunting and fishing activities of the indigenous peoples in the Lower Amur and Russian Primorye region with the national economy and international politics.
