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Social Adaptation to Food Stress (Paperback)
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Combining anthropology, archeology, and evolutionary theory, Paul
E. Minnis develops a model of how tribal societies deal with severe
food shortages. While focusing on the prehistory of the Rio Mimbres
region of New Mexico, he provides comparative data from the Fringe
Enga of New Guinea, the Tikopia of Tikopia Island, and the Gwembe
Tonga of South Africa.
Minnis proposes that, faced with the threat of food shortages,
nonstratified societies survive by employing a series of responses
that are increasingly effective but also are increasingly costly
and demand increasingly larger cooperative efforts. The model
Minnis develops allows him to infer, from evidence of such factors
as population size, resource productivity, and climate change, the
occurrence of food crises in the past. Using the Classic Mimbres
society as a test case, he summarizes the regional archeological
sequence and analyzes the effects of environmental fluctuations on
economic and social organization. He concludes that the responses
of the Mimbres people to their burgeoning population were
inadequate to prevent the collapse of the society in the late
twelfth century.
In its illumination of the general issue of responses to food
shortages, "Social Adaptation to Food Stress" will interest not
only archeologists but also those concerned with current food
shortages in the Third World. Cultural ecologists and human
geographers will be able to derive a wealth of ideas, methods, and
data from Minnis's work.
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