| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 288 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-275) and index. |
| Contents |
Historicizing adaptation, adapting to history: forager-traders in South and Southeast Asia / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Part I. South Asia: -- Introduction / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Hunting and gathering strategies in prehistoric India: a biocultural perspective on trade and subsistence / John R. Lukacs -- Harappans and hunters: economic interaction and specialization in prehistoric India / Gregory L. Possehl -- Gender and social organization in the reliefs of the Nilgiri Hills / Allen Zagarell -- Pepper in the hills: upland-lowland exchange and the intensification of the spice trade / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Part II. Southeast Asia: -- Introduction / Laura L. Junker -- Hunters and traders in northern Australia / Sandra Bowdler -- Foragers, farmers, and traders in the Malayan Peninsula: origins of cultural and biological diversity / Alan Fix -- Economic specialization and inter-ethnic trade between foragers and farmers in the prehispanic Philippines / Laura L. Junker. |
| Summary |
In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living through various combinations of foraging and hunting. This book uses a series of detailed comparative case-studies to re-evaluate forager-trader groups and place them within the surrounding political, economic and social worlds of South and Southeast Asia. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hunting and gathering societies -- Southeast Asia -- History.
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Hunting and gathering societies. |
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Southeast Asia. |
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History. |
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Southeast Asia -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Morrison, Kathleen D., editor.
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Junker, Laura Lee, 1958- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Forager-traders in south and southeast Asia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002 052181572X 0521016363 (DLC) 2003277375 (OCoLC)50582790 |
| ISBN |
051106506X (electronic book) |
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9780511065064 (electronic book) |
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051105873X |
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9780511058738 |
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0511073526 |
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9780511073526 |
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9780521815727 (paperback) |
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052181572X (paperback) |
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9780521016360 (paperback) |
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0521016363 (paperback) |
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1280419954 |
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9781280419959 |
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0521016363 (paperback) |
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