Past and present in hunter gatherer studies / edited by Carmel Schrire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schrire, Carmel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting.

Traditional farming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders. Using historical, anthropological and archaeological data and cases from Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia, the authors examine hunter gatherer peoples-both past and present--to assess these relationships and the mechanisms by which hunter gatherers adapt and maintain elements of their culture in the wider world around them.

Contents:

1. Wild surmises on savage thoughts / Carmel Schrire

2. Hunters and history: a case study from Western Tasmania / Rhys Jones

3. Interactions of past and present in Arnhem Land, North Australia / Carmel Schrire

4. Forager resource and land use in the humid tropics: the Agta of Northeastern Luzon, the Philippines / P. Bion Griffin

5. Punan foragers in the trading networks of Southeast Asia / Carl L. Hoffman

6. Soaqua and bushmen: hunters and robbers / John E. Parkington

7. Prehistoric herders and foragers of the Kalahari: the evidence for 1500 years of interaction / James R. Denbow

8. The IKung in the Kalahari exchange: an ethnohistorical perspective / Robert J. Gordon

9. Ideological continuities in prehistoric Southern Africa: the evidence of rock art / J. David Lewis-Williams

10. To find ourselves: art and social geography of prehistoric hunter gatherers / Margaret W. Conkey.

Notes:

First published 2009 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-42291-3

1-315-42292-1

1-315-42293-X

1-59874-770-3

9781315422930

OCLC:

711747404