Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund

UID:

Format: 1 online resource (xxi, 288 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9780511489631 (ebook)

Content: In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living - in whole or part - through gathering and hunting, producing not only subsistence goods but commodities destined for regional and even world markets. These forager-traders have had an ambiguous position in ethnographic analysis, variously represented as relics, degraded hunter-gatherers, or recent upstarts. Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia adopts a multidisciplinary approach to these groups, presenting a series of comparative case-studies that analyse the long-term histories of hunting, gathering, trading, power relations, and regional social and biological interactions in this critical region. This book is a fascinating and important addition to the current 'revisionist' debate, and a unique attempt to re-conceptualize our knowledge of forager-traders within the surrounding context of complex polities, populations and economies in South and Southeast Asia.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Historicizing adaptation, adapting to history: forager-traders in South and Southeast Asia / , Introduction / , Hunting and gathering strategies in prehistoric India: a biocultural perspective on trade and subsistence / , Harappans and hunters: economic interaction and specialization in prehistoric India / , Gender and social organization in the reliefs of the Nilgiri Hills / , Pepper in the hills: upland-lowland exchange and the intensification of the spice trade / , Introduction / , Hunters and traders in northern Australia / , Foragers, farmers, and traders in the Malayan Peninsula: origins of cultural and biological diversity / , Economic specialization and inter-ethnic trade between foragers and farmers in the prehispanic Philippines /

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9780521815727

Language: English

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489631

URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)

UID:

Format: IX, 306 S. : , Ill., Kt.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 978-81-7304779-4

Series Statement: Vijayanagara research project monograph series 11

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306)

Language: English

Subjects: History , Geography

URL: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=020201101&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

UID:

Format: 1 online resource (xiv, 493 pages) : , illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

ISBN: 9780226024134 (ebook) :

Content: Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face - including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation - are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests' past, present, and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces.

Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9780226322667

Language: English

URL: Chicago scholarship online

UID:

Format: xxi, 288 p. : , ill., maps.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Note: Historicizing adaptation, adapting to history: forager-traders in South and Southeast Asia / , Introduction / , Hunting and gathering strategies in prehistoric India: a biocultural perspective on trade and subsistence / , Harappans and hunters: economic interaction and specialization in prehistoric India / , Gender and social organization in the reliefs of the Nilgiri Hills / , Pepper in the hills: upland-lowland exchange and the intensification of the spice trade / , Introduction / , Hunters and traders in northern Australia / , Foragers, farmers, and traders in the Malayan Peninsula: origins of cultural and biological diversity / , Economic specialization and inter-ethnic trade between foragers and farmers in the prehispanic Philippines /

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

URL: Click to View

UID:

Format: 1 online resource (508 p.)

ISBN: 0-226-02413-X

Content: Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face-including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation-are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests' past, present, and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces. Moreover, in many cases the coalescence of these forces-from local ecologies to competing knowledge systems-has masked a significant contemporary trend of woodland resurgence, even in the forests of the tropics. Focusing on the history and current use of woodlands from India to the Amazon, The Social Lives of Forests attempts to build a coherent view of forests sited at the nexus of nature, culture, and development. With chapters covering the effects of human activities on succession patterns in now-protected Costa Rican forests; the intersection of gender and knowledge in African shea nut tree markets; and even the unexpectedly rich urban woodlands of Chicago, this book explores forests as places of significant human action, with complex institutions, ecologies, and economies that have transformed these landscapes in the past and continue to shape them today. From rain forests to timber farms, the face of forests-how we define, understand, and maintain them-is changing.

Note: "Papers of the conference held at the University of Chicago May 30-31, 2008." , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , 1. From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence: Paradigms, Representations, and Practices -- , 2. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives -- , 3. Stories of Nature's Hybridity in Europe: Implications for Forest Conservation in the Global South -- , 4. Adam Smith in the Forest -- , 5. Jungles, Forests, and the Theatre of Wars: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and the Political Forest in Southeast Asia -- , 6. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico -- , 7. Pan-Tropical Perspectives on Forest Resurgence -- , 8. The Social Lives of Forest Transitions and Successions: Theories of Forest Resurgence -- , 9. Paradigms Lost: Tropical Conservation under Late Capitalism -- , 10. Effects of Human Activities on Successional Pathways: Case Studies from Lowland Wet Forests of Northeastern Costa Rica -- , 11. Constructing Nature: Socio-Natural Histories of an Indian Forest -- , 12. Culturing the Rainforest: The Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak -- , 13. Residual Effects of Agroforestry Activities at Dos Hombres, a Classic Period Maya Site in Belize -- , 14. Forest as Faunal Enclave: Endangerment, Ecology, and Exclusion in India -- , 15. Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape -- , 16. The Fate of the Branded Forest: Science, Violence, and Seduction in the World of Teak -- , 17. Gendered Knowledge and the African Shea-Nut Tree -- , 18. Ancient Forest Tea: How Globalization Turned Backward Minorities into Green Marketing Innovators -- , 19. The Production of Forests: Tree Cover Transitions in Northern Thailand, Northern Laos, and Southern China -- , 20. From Swidden to Rubber: Transforming Landscape and Livelihoods in Mountainous Northern Laos -- , 21. A Forest for My Kingdom? "Forest Rent" and the Politics of History in Asante (Ghana) -- , 22. The Invisible Map: Community Tenure Rights -- , 23. Re-Greening the Sahel: Linking Adaptation to Climate Change, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainable Development in Drylands -- , 24. Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland -- , 25. Urban Residence, Rural Employment, and the Future of Amazonian Forests -- , 26. From Fallow Timber to Urban Housing: Family Forestry and Tablilla Production in Peru -- , 27. Forest Resources, City Services: Globalization, Household Networks, and Urbanization in the Amazon Estuary -- , 28. Chicago Wilderness: Integrating Biological and Social Diversity in the Urban Garden -- , Notes -- , References -- , Contributors -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-32266-1

Language: English

DOI: 10.7208/9780226024134

UID:

Series Statement: Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan ...

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Archäologie