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UNINA9910781010403321 |
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Autore |
Politis Gustavo |
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Titolo |
Nukak : ethnoarcheology of an Amazonian people / / Gustavo G. Politis ; translated by Benjamin Alberti |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-42339-1 |
1-315-42340-5 |
1-315-42341-3 |
1-59874-730-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (414 p.) |
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Collana |
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Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London |
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Soggetti |
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Nukak Indians - Social life and customs |
Colombia History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-405) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Theory and Methods: Ethics and Techniques; 3. Sociopolitical Organization and Cosmology; 4. Shelters and Camps; 5. The Use of Space and Discard Patterns; 6. Residential and Logistical Mobility: Daily Foraging Trips; 7. Traditional Technology; 8. Subsistence; 9. Animal Exploitation, Processing, and Discard; 10. Final Considerations; Appendix I. Sample of Daily Foraging Trips; Appendix II. Patterns of Bone Representation and Surface Bone Modification Caused; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the first in-depth study in English of the last "undiscovered" people of the Amazon. His work is groundbreaking and urgent, both because of encroaching guerrilla violence that makes Nukak existence perilously fragile, and because his work with the Nukak represented one of the last opportunities to conduct research with hunter-gatherers using contemporary methodological and the theoretical tools. Through a rich and comprehensive ethno-archaeological portrait of material culture "in the making," this work ma |
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