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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823127103321

Autore

Politis Gustavo

Titolo

Nukak : ethnoarcheology of an Amazonian people / / Gustavo G. Politis ; translated by Benjamin Alberti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, CA, : Left Coast Press, c2007

ISBN

1-315-42339-1

1-315-42340-5

1-315-42341-3

1-59874-730-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Collana

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Disciplina

981.13

981/.13

Soggetti

Nukak Indians - Social life and customs

Colombia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-405) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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