The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru - Softcover
In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. Data on herd dynamics are subjected to computer modeling in an effort to evaluate the roles of biology, symbolic and ritual behavior, ecological adaptation, and practical reason. The book contains the most detailed study of the waytakuy llama marking ceremony yet available. The role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going to extinction is evaluated against anthropological and sociobiological theory. This is an interdisciplinary book will appeal to professional archaeologists, prehistorians, cultural anthropologists, Andeanists, theoretical biologists, evolutionary biologists, and zoologists interested in animal domestication.
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In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru.
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Kent V. Flannery is the James B. Griffin Professor, Anthropology and the Curator of Environmental Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1598744607
- ISBN 13 9781598744606
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages251
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