UID:
(DE-602)gbv_1650650841
Format:
288 S.
,
graph. Darst., Kt.
Edition:
1st publ.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [ca. 2010] Online-Ressource
ISBN:
052181572X
,
0521016363
,
9780521815727
,
9780521016360
Content:
A unique re-assessment of forager-trader groups within the complex historical worlds of South and Southeast Asia.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- 1 Historicizing adaptation, adapting to history: forager-traders in South and Southeast Asia -- Hunter-gatherers, history, and the revisionist debate -- South and Southeast Asia in the hunter-gatherer scene -- Building comparisons: South and Southeast Asia -- Problems of naming: when is a hunter-gatherer? -- Long-term histories in South and Southeast Asia -- NOTES -- PART I South Asia -- 2 Introduction -- Archaeological perspectives -- The Lower Palaeolithic -- The Middle Palaeolithic -- The Upper Palaeolithic -- The Mesolithic or Late Stone Age: hunter-gatherers in a changing world -- The Early Holocene: diverging ways of making a living -- Hunting and gathering in a larger world -- South Asian foragers and text-based history -- Tribes and tropes: the newness and oldness of gathering and hunting -- NOTES -- 3 Hunting and gathering strategies in prehistoric India: a biocultural perspective on trade and subsistence -- Hunter-gatherers, trade and subsistence: introductory models -- The biocultural approach to hunter-gatherers and prehistoric populations -- Interactive trade in prehistoric India: the development of a biocultural synthesis -- Are recently proposed extensions of the interactive trade model valid? -- Cultural contact, trade, and subsistence: new literature and novel models -- Hunter-gatherers -- Pastoralists -- Concluding remarks -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- 4 Harappans and hunters: economic interaction and specialization in prehistoric India -- Introduction -- Lothal -- Lothal and the symbiosis with hunter-gatherers -- Summary -- 5 Gender and social organization in the reliefs of the Nilgiri Hills -- Discovering aspects of gender, power, and community in the past -- Gender and the politics of art.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-275) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780511169779
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0511169779
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521815727
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Forager-traders in south and southeast Asia Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2002 ISBN 052181572X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521016363
Additional Edition:
Print version Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia : Long-Term Histories
Language:
English
Keywords:
Südasien
;
Wildbeuter
;
Südostasien
;
Wildbeuter
;
Aufsatzsammlung
