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Title The diversity of hunter-gatherer pasts / edited by Bill Finlayson and Graeme Warren
Published Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 196 pages)
Contents The diversity of hunter-gatherer pasts : an introduction / Bill Finlayson and Graeme Warren -- Expanding notions of hunter-gatherer diversity : identifying core organisational principles and practices in Coast Salish societies of the Northwest Coast of North America / Colin Grier -- Conceptualising subsistence in Central Africa and the West over the longue durée / Kathryn M. de Luna -- The end of hunting and gathering / Bill Finlayson -- Okhotsk and sushen : history and diversity in iron age maritime hunter-gatherers of northern Japan / Mark J. Hudson -- Comparative analysis of the development of hunter- sher-gatherer societies of Tierra del Fuego and the Northwest Coast of America / Jordi Estévez and Alfredo Prieto -- Let's start with our academic past : the abandoned "Vienna school" and our hunter-gatherer pasts / Reinhard Blumauer -- Experimental ethnoarchaeology : studying hunter-gatherers at the uttermost end of the earth / Robert Carracedo-Recasens and Albert García-Piquer -- Strangers in a strange land? : intimate sociality and emergent creativity in middle palaeolithic Europe / Penny Spikins, Gail Hitchens and Andy Needham -- Making the familiar past : northwest European hunter-gatherers, analogies and comparisons / Graeme Warren -- Hunter-gatherers in sub-tropical Asia : valid and invalid comparisons / Jana Fortier and Paul S. Goldstein -- Archaeological dimensions of past and present hunter-fisher-gatherer diversity / Paul J. Lane
Summary "Discussion of hunter-gatherers shows them to be varied and flexible, but modelling of contemporary hunter-gatherers has not only reduced them into essential categories, but has also portrayed them as static and without history. It is often said that the study of hunter-gatherers can provide insight into past forms of social organisation and behaviour; unfortunately too often it has limited our understandings of these societies. In contrast, contributors here explore past hunter-gather diversity over time and space to provide critical perspectives on general models of 'hunter-gatherers' and attempt to provide new perspectives on hunter-gatherer societies from the greater diversity present in the past."-- Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2017)
Subject Hunting and gathering societies -- Case studies
Prehistoric peoples -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Hunting and gathering societies
Prehistoric peoples
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Finlayson, Bill, editor
Warren, Graeme, editor
LC no. 2017025297
ISBN 9781785705892
178570589X
9781785705908
1785705903
9781785705915
1785705911