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1 online resource (xv, 500 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography |
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Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography.
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| Contents |
PART ONE: FOOD GATHERERS 1. Introduction. -- 2. The Semang and the Sakai: collectors in the Malayan forests [Malaysia]. -- 3. The Bushmen: hunters in the Kalahari desert. -- 4. The Paiute: collectors of the great basin. [Sierra Nevada] -- 5. The Blackfoot: buffalo hunters of the North American plains. -- 6. The Nootka, Kwakiutl and other fishing peoples of British Columbia. -- 7. The Yukaghir: reindeer hunters in the Siberian tundra. -- 8. The Eskimo: seal and caribou hunters in arctic America [Inuit] |
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PART TWO: CULTIVATORS 9. The Boro of the western Amazon forest. -- 10. The Yoruba and Boloki: hoe cultivators in the African forests. -- 11. Oceanians: peoples of the eastern Solomons and the Society Islands [Solomon Islands, Sa'a]. -- 12. The Hopi and the Yuma: flood farmers in the North American desert. -- 13. Cochin: an Indian state on the Malabar coast. [India] |
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PART THREE: NOMADS: 14. The Masai: cattle herders on the East African plateau [Maasi]. -- 15. The Ruwala Badawin: camel breeders of northern Arabia. -- 16. The Kazak, Kirghiz and Kalmuck: horse and sheep herders of central Asia. -- 17. The Northern Tungus and other reindeer herders of Siberia |
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PART FOUR: HABITAT AND ECONOMY: 18 Food gathering economies. -- 19. Digging stick , hoe and plough cultivation. -- 20. Pastoralism. -- 21. Cultivated plants and the development of agriculture [yams, manioc, taro, sweet potato, potato, coconut, breadfruit, banana, wheat and barley, rye and oats, rice, millets, spread of cereal cultivation, maize]. -- 22. The domestication and ultilization of animals [dog, livestock, pig, fowl, cattle, zebu, water buffalo, yak, sheep, goat, donkey, horse, camel] |
| Notes |
This ed. originally published: London : Methuen, 1949 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology.
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Economic anthropology.
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Human ecology.
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Human geography.
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human ecology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Economic anthropology
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Ethnology
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Human ecology
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Human geography
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Agriculture préhistorique.
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Anthropologie économique.
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Ethnologie.
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Géographie humaine.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136534652 |
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1136534652 |
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