The foraging spectrum : diversity in hunter-gatherer lifeways / Robert L. Kelly
- Bib ID:
- 85904
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kelly, Robert L
- Description:
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- Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1995
- xvi, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1560984651 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- 156098466X (alkaline paper) (paper)
- Summary:
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Because most of humanity's time as a species has been spent in a hunting-and-gathering subsistence mode, living hunter-gatherers have always played a pivotal role in interpretations of pre-history and anthropological theory. It is widely believed that "human nature" can be seen more clearly at this "stage" than at any other. Challenging this preconception, Robert L. Kelly crafts a new theoretical position by emphasizing the diversity among hunter-gatherer societies - a diversity that belies attempts to establish a single model of a predominant or "original" foraging lifeway. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for the differences among ethnographically known hunter-gatherers.
By considering the actual, not imagined, reasos behind diverse behavior, The Foraging Spectrum argues for a revision of many a rchaeological models of prehistory. Written for archaeologists and ethnologists outside the field of hunter-gatherer research, it stresses explaining, rather than explaining away, variability.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Hunter-Gatherers and Anthropology
- 2. Environment, Evolution, and Anthropological Theory
- 3. Foraging and Subsistence
- 4. Foraging and Mobility
- 5. Sharing, Exchange, and Land Tenure
- 6. Group Size and Reproduction
- 7. Men, Women, and Foraging
- 8. Egalitarian and Nonegalitarian Hunter-Gatherers
- 9. Hunter-Gatherers and Prehistory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-433) and index.
- Subject:
- Hunting and gathering societies
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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