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Autore |
Marlowe Frank <1954-> |
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Titolo |
The Hadza [[electronic resource] ] : hunter-gatherers of Tanzania / / Frank W. Marlowe |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-77271-6 |
9786612772719 |
0-520-94544-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Collana |
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Origins of human behavior and culture ; ; 3 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hatsa (African people) - Hunting |
Hatsa (African people) - Food |
Hatsa (African people) - Social life and customs |
Hunting and gathering societies - Tanzania |
Social ecology - Tanzania |
Social evolution - Tanzania |
Tanzania Social life and customs |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-318) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Hadza and evolutionary theory : an introduction -- Habitat and history -- Social organization, beliefs, and practices -- Material culture -- Foraging -- Life history -- Mating -- Parenting -- Cooperation and food-sharing -- The median foragers : humans in cross-species perspective -- Afterward : the Hadza present and future. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably applies his years of research with the Hadza to cover the traditional topics in ethnography-subsistence, material culture, religion, and social structure. But the book's unique contribution is to introduce readers to the more contemporary field of behavioral ecology, which attempts to |
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