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Title: | Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology |
Authors: | Alan, Barnard |
Keywords: | Hunting and gathering societies |
Issue Date: | 2004 |
Publisher: | Berg |
Description: | This book is the first to examine in depth the idea of the ‘hunter-gatherer’ through history. It is important to recognize that this is not (to borrow a metaphor from Steward) a unilinear history, but a multilinear or yet more complex one with differences of emphasis, a diversity of problems and opposing points of view. Equally, it is important to recognize diversity in world anthropology. In this book not only North American and British, but also Japanese, French, German and Austrian, Russian and Soviet, and Indian ethnological and archaeological traditions (as well as perspectives in the ancient scholarly traditions of Arabia, India and China) are scrutinized. And not only old debates, but also those of recent decades and of today, are treated in ways that should be enlightening for academics, students and a wider public alike. The result, I believe, is a unique contribution to understanding the many ways in which anthropologists, archaeologists and other scholars have approached and do approach the study of huntingand-gathering societies |
URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/18427 |
ISBN: | 1 85973 820 6 |
Appears in Collections: | Archeology and Heritage Management |
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