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Indigenous South Americans - An Ecological Perspective (Paperback)
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Indigenous South Americans - An Ecological Perspective (Paperback)
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Utilizing ethnographic and archaeological data and an updated
paradigm derived from the best features of cultural ecology and
ecological anthropology, this extensively illustrated book
addresses over fifteen South American adaptive systems representing
a broad cross section of band, village, chiefdom, and state
societies throughout the continent over the past 13,000
years."Indigenous South Americans of the Past and Present" presents
data on both prehistoric and recent indigenous groups across the
entire continent within an explicit theoretical framework.
Introductory chapters provide a brief overview of the variability
that has characterized these groups over the long period of
indigenous adaptation to the continent and examine the historical
background of the ecological and cultural evolutionary paradigm.
The book then presents a detailed overview of the principal
environmental contexts within which indigenous adaptive systems
have survived and evolved over thousands of years. It discusses the
relationship between environmental types and subsistence
productivity, on the one hand, and between these two variables and
sociopolitical complexity, on the other. Subsequent chapters
proceed in sequential order that is at once evolutionary (from the
least to the most complex groups) and geographical (from the least
to the most productive environments)--around the continent in
counterclockwise fashion from the hunter-gatherers of Tierra del
Fuego in the far south; to the villagers of the Amazonian lowlands;
to the chiefdoms of the Amazon "varzea" and the far northern Andes;
and, finally, to the chiefdoms and states of the Peruvian Andes.
Along the way, detailed presentations and critiques are made of a
number of theories based on the South American data that have
worldwide implications for our understanding of prehistoric and
recent adaptive systems.
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