Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521016363 ISBN 13: 9780521016360

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Specialized forager-traders have lived alongside and in exchange relationships with agriculturalists for many thousands of years in South and Southeast Asia. Here is a series of representative case-studies that pertain to a current archaeological debate. The issue concerns the extent to which historical foraging populations are to be understood as specialized adaptations to a complex economically diverse environment, rather than as throw-backs to a Paleolithic way of life.

About this title

Book Description:

Specialised forager-traders have lived alongside and in exchange relationships with agriculturalists for many thousands of years in South and Southeast Asia. The book offers a series of representative case-studies, and will be of particular interest in light of a current debate about the extent to which historical foraging populations must be understood as specialised adaptations to a complex economically diverse environment rather than as a throw-back to a Palaeolithic way of life.

About the Author:

Kathleen D. Morrison is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521016363
• ISBN 13: 9780521016360
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Morrison Kathleen D., Junker Laura L.