03411nam 2200733Ia 450 991082312710332120200520144314.01-315-42339-11-315-42340-51-315-42341-31-59874-730-410.4324/9781315423418 (CKB)2550000000017937(EBL)677822(OCoLC)647914847(SSID)ssj0000592220(PQKBManifestationID)12220467(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000592220(PQKBWorkID)10735841(PQKB)10707268(SSID)ssj0000486211(PQKBManifestationID)11351780(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486211(PQKBWorkID)10429702(PQKB)11460425(MiAaPQ)EBC677822(Au-PeEL)EBL677822(CaPaEBR)ebr10379864(CaONFJC)MIL955523(OCoLC)961208721(OCoLC)1336970559(FINmELB)ELB160951(EXLCZ)99255000000001793720061219d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNukak ethnoarcheology of an Amazonian people /Gustavo G. Politis ; translated by Benjamin Alberti1st ed.Walnut Creek, CA Left Coast Pressc20071 online resource (414 p.)Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College LondonFirst published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.1-59874-229-9 1-59874-230-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-405) and index.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 AuthorFrom 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 maPublications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.Nukak IndiansSocial life and customsColombiaHistoryNukak IndiansSocial life and customs.981.13981/.13Politis Gustavo1664335MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823127103321Nukak4022294UNINA