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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781011803321

Titolo

Past and present in hunter gatherer studies / / edited by Carmel Schrire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-42291-3

1-315-42292-1

1-315-42293-X

1-59874-770-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchrireCarmel

Disciplina

306/.3

599.97

Soggetti

Hunting

Traditional farming

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2009 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Wild surmises on savage thoughts / Carmel Schrire -- 2. Hunters and history: a case study from Western Tasmania / Rhys Jones -- 3. Interactions of past and present in Arnhem Land, North Australia / Carmel Schrire -- 4. Forager resource and land use in the humid tropics: the Agta of Northeastern Luzon, the Philippines / P. Bion Griffin -- 5. Punan foragers in the trading networks of Southeast Asia / Carl L. Hoffman -- 6. Soaqua and bushmen: hunters and robbers / John E. Parkington -- 7. Prehistoric herders and foragers of the Kalahari: the evidence for 1500 years of interaction / James R. Denbow -- 8. The IKung in the Kalahari exchange: an ethnohistorical perspective / Robert J. Gordon -- 9. Ideological continuities in prehistoric Southern Africa: the evidence of rock art / J. David Lewis-Williams -- 10. To find ourselves: art and social geography of prehistoric hunter gatherers / Margaret W. Conkey.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders. Using historical, anthropological and archaeological data and cases from Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia, the authors examine hunter gatherer peoples-both past and



present--to assess these relationships and the mechanisms by which hunter gatherers adapt and maintain elements of their culture in the wider world around them.