Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Douglas J. Kennett, Bruce Winterhalder

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450208003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-75943-4; 9786612759437; 0-520-93245-5; 1-59875-917-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Collana: Origins of Human Behavior and Culture ; ; 1
• Altri autori (Persone): KennettDouglas J; WinterhalderBruce
• Disciplina: 306.3/64
• Soggetti: Agriculture - Origin; Agriculture, Prehistoric; Human behavior; Human ecology; Human evolution; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Behavioral Ecology and the Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Agriculture -- 2. A Future Discounting Explanation for the Persistence of a Mixed Foraging-Horticulture Strategy among the Mikea of Madagascar -- 3. Central Place Foraging and Food Production on the Cumberland Plateau, Eastern Kentucky -- 4. Aspects of Optimization and Risk During the Early Agricultural Period in Southeastern Arizona -- 5. A Formal Model for Predicting Agriculture among the Fremont -- 6. An Ecological Model for the Origins of Maize-Based Food Production on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico -- 7. The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the Neotropics -- 8. Costly Signaling, the Sexual Division of Labor, and Animal Domestication in the Andean Highlands -- 9. Human Behavioral Ecology, Domestic Animals, and ; Land Use during the Transition to Agriculture in Valencia, Eastern Spain -- 10. Breaking the Rain Barrier and the Tropical Spread of Near Eastern Agriculture into Southern Arabia -- 11. The Emergence of Agriculture in New Guinea -- 12. The Ideal Free Distribution, Food Production, and the Colonization of Oceania -- 13. Human Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Food Production -- 14. Agriculture, Archaeology, and Human Behavioral Ecology -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of the most consequential transitions in human history: the origins of agriculture. Carefully balancing theory and detailed empirical study, and drawing from a series of ethnographic and archaeological case studies from eleven locations-including North and South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, the Near East, Africa, and the Pacific-the contributors to this volume examine the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and herding using a broad set of analytical models and concepts. These include diet breadth, central place foraging, ideal free distribution, discounting, risk sensitivity, population ecology, and costly signaling. An introductory chapter both charts the basics of the theory and notes areas of rapid advance in our understanding of how human subsistence systems evolve. Two concluding chapters by senior archaeologists reflect on the potential for human behavioral ecology to explain domestication and the transition from foraging to farming.

The trace of God : Derrida and religion / / edited by Edward Baring and Peter E. Gordon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818785403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-8232-6211-1; 0-8232-6210-3; 0-8232-6638-9; 0-8232-6212-X; 0-8232-6213-8
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Collana: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetti: Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- “Et Iterum de Deo”: Jacques Derrida and the Tradition of Divine Names -- Not Yet Marrano: Levinas, Derrida, and the Ontology of Being Jewish -- Poetics of the Broken Tablet -- Theism and Atheism at Play: Jacques Derrida and Christian Heideggerianism -- Called to Bear Witness: Derrida, Muslims, and Islam -- Habermas, Derrida, and the Question of Religion -- Abraham, the Settling Foreigner -- Unprotected Religion: Radical Theology, Radical Atheism, and the Return of Anti- Religion -- The Autoimmunity of Religion -- Derrida and Messianic Atheism -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Derrida’s writings on the question of religion have played a crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the globe. The Trace of God provides a compact introduction to this debate. It considers Derrida’s fraught relationship to Judaism and his Jewish identity, broaches the question of Derrida's relation to the Western Christian tradition, and examines both the points of contact and the silences in Derrida's treatment of Islam.