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Forager-traders in south and southeast Asia long-term histories  Cover Image E-book E-book

Forager-traders in south and southeast Asia long-term histories

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.

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  • ISBN: 051106506X (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780511065064 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 051105873X
  • ISBN: 9780511058738
  • ISBN: 0511073526
  • ISBN: 9780511073526
  • ISBN: 9780521815727 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 052181572X (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0521016363 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (xxi, 288 pages) : illustrations, maps
  • Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-275) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
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Description based on print version record.
Subject: Hunting and gathering societies -- Southeast Asia -- History
Southeast Asia -- History
HISTORY
Hunting and gathering societies
Southeast Asia
Genre: Electronic books.
History.

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