Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia (eBook, PDF)

Long-Term Histories
Redaktion: Morrison, Kathleen D.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511058738
• Artikelnr.: 38204178

Autorenporträt

KATHLEEN D. MORRISON is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Historicizing adaptation, adapting to history: forager-traders in South
and Southeast Asia Kathleen D. Morrison; 2. Introduction Kathleen D.
Morrison; 3. Hunting and gathering strategies in prehistoric India: a
bio-cultural perspective on trade and subsistence John R. Lukacs; 4.
Harappans and hunters: economic interaction and specialization in
prehistoric India Gregory L. Possehl; 5. Gender and social organization in
the reliefs of the Nilgiri Hills Allen Zagarell; 6. Pepper in the hills:
upland-lowland exchange and the intensification of the spice trade Kathleen
D. Morrison; 7. Introduction Laura L. Junker; 8. Hunters and traders in
Northern Australia Sandra Bowdler; 9. Foragers, farmers, and traders in the
Malaysian Peninsula Alan Fix; 10. Economic specialization and inter-ethnic
trade between foragers and farmers in the Prehispanic Philippines Laura L.
Junker.