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Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-farming Transitions in Southeast Asia
Graeme (Ed) Barker
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Hardcover. Does it make sense to understand the prehistory, history and present-day patterns of life in Southeast Asia in terms of a distinction between two ways of life: "farming" and "foraging"? This is the central question addressed by the anthropologists and archaeologists contributing to this volume. Editor(s): Barker, Graeme; Janowski, Dr Monica. Num Pages: 142 pages, 34 col & 11 b/w illus, 8 tables. BIC Classification: HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 282 x 221 x 16. Weight in Grams: 880.
Does it make sense to understand the prehistory, history and present-day patterns of life in Southeast Asia in terms of a distinction between two ways of life: "farming" and "foraging"? This is the central question addressed by the anthropologists and archaeologists contributing to this volume. Inherent within the question "Why Cultivate?" are people's relationships with the physical world: are they primarily to do with subsistence and economics or with social and/or cultural forces? The answers given by the contributors are complex. On a practical level they argue that there is a ... Read more
Does it make sense to understand the prehistory, history and present-day patterns of life in Southeast Asia in terms of a distinction between two ways of life: "farming" and "foraging"? This is the central question addressed by the anthropologists and archaeologists contributing to this volume. Inherent within the question "Why Cultivate?" are people's relationships with the physical world: are they primarily to do with subsistence and economics or with social and/or cultural forces? The answers given by the contributors are complex. On a practical level they argue that there is a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research United Kingdom
Number of pages
142
Condition
New
Number of Pages
142
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902937588
SKU
V9781902937588
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About Graeme (Ed) Barker
Graeme Barker is Emeritus Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Research Fellow in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. His research focuses on the interactions between past human societies and the environments they inhabited, especially relating to the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and, more recently, the dispersal of our species.
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