| Farmers as Hunters: The Implications of Sedentism Contributor(s): Kent, Susan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521101980 ISBN-13: 9780521101981 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2008 Annotation: Farmers as hunters analyses from an essentially ethnographic perspective the role of hunters in small-scale farming societies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - General - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 630.901 |
| Series: New Directions in Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 8.25" W x 11" (0.86 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Farmers as hunters analyses from an essentially ethnographic perspective the role of hunters in small-scale farming societies. The twelve contributors examine the effects of hunting and mobility on behaviour, diet, economy and material culture at both culture-specific and cross-cultural levels. The influence of sedentism and the increasing use of domesticates is also explored across a wide range of societies from the American southwest and Amazonian to Africa, New Guinea and the Phillipines. Differing perceptions of the status of animals and plants are reviewed and cultural values are throughout given due weight in a field where discussion too often verges on the economically deterministic. |