Forager-traders in South and Southeast Asia : long-term histories / / edited by Kathleen D. Morrison and Laura L. Junker [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783283503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 0-511-09433-7; 1-107-13414-5; 1-280-41995-4; 0-511-16977-9; 1-139-14828-1; 0-511-06506-X; 0-511-05873-X; 0-511-33118-5; 0-511-48963-3; 0-511-07352-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 959.01
• Soggetti: Hunting and gathering societies - Southeast Asia - History; Southeast Asia History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-275) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Historicizing adaptation, adapting to history: forager-traders in South and Southeast Asia / Kathleen D. Morrison -- ; Part I. South Asia: -- Introduction / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Hunting and gathering strategies in prehistoric India: a biocultural perspective on trade and subsistence / John R. Lukacs -- Harappans and hunters: economic interaction and specialization in prehistoric India / Gregory L. Possehl -- Gender and social organization in the reliefs of the Nilgiri Hills / Allen Zagarell -- Pepper in the hills: upland-lowland exchange and the intensification of the spice trade / Kathleen D. Morrison -- ; Part II. Southeast Asia: -- Introduction / Laura L. Junker -- Hunters and traders in northern Australia / Sandra Bowdler -- Foragers, farmers, ; and traders in the Malayan Peninsula: origins of cultural and biological diversity / Alan Fix -- Economic specialization and inter-ethnic trade between foragers and farmers in the prehispanic Philippines / Laura L. Junker.
• Sommario/riassunto: In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living - in whole or part - through gathering and hunting, producing not only subsistence goods but commodities destined for regional and even world markets. These forager-traders have had an ambiguous position in ethnographic analysis, variously represented as relics, degraded hunter-gatherers, or recent upstarts. Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia adopts a multidisciplinary approach to these groups, presenting a series of comparative case-studies that analyse the long-term histories of hunting, gathering, trading, power relations, and regional social and biological interactions in this critical region. This book is a fascinating and important addition to the current 'revisionist' debate, and a unique attempt to re-conceptualize our knowledge of forager-traders within the surrounding context of complex polities, populations and economies in South and Southeast Asia.