| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 288 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| Summary |
In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living through various combinations of foraging and hunting. This book uses a series of detailed comparative case-studies to re-evaluate forager-trader groups and place them within the surrounding political, economic and social worlds of South and Southeast Asia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-275) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hunting and gathering societies -- Southeast Asia -- History
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HISTORY.
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Hunting and gathering societies
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| SUBJECT |
Southeast Asia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008630
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| Subject |
Southeast Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morrison, Kathleen D., editor
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Junker, Laura Lee, 1958- editor.
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| ISBN |
051106506X |
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9780511065064 |
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051105873X |
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9780511058738 |
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0511073526 |
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0521016363 |
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0511169779 |
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9780511169779 |
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1139148281 |
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9781139148283 |
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0511331185 |
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9780511331183 |
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