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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morrison, Kathleen D., editor.

Junker, Laura Lee, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting and gathering societies--Southeast Asia--History.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Southeast Asia--History.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Forager-Traders in South & Southeast Asia

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-275) and index.

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

OCLC:

57252984

Publisher Number:

2027/heb31090 hdl