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Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for
delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their
change through time. Sites studied range from Egypt to South Africa
and Ghana to Tanzania, while time periods span the Stone Age to the
period just prior to colonialization.
Farmers as hunters analyses from an essentially ethnographic
perspective the role of hunters in small-scale farming societies.
The twelve contributors examine the effects of hunting and mobility
on behaviour, diet, economy and material culture at both
culture-specific and cross-cultural levels. The influence of
sedentism and the increasing use of domesticates is also explored
across a wide range of societies from the American southwest and
Amazonian to Africa, New Guinea and the Phillipines. Differing
perceptions of the status of animals and plants are reviewed and
cultural values are throughout given due weight in a field where
discussion too often verges on the economically deterministic.
Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space investigates the
relationship between the built environment and the organisation of
space. The contributors are classical and prehistoric
archaeologists, anthropologists and architects, who from their
different backgrounds are able to provide some important and
original insights into this relationship.
This book examines variability within broadly defined African
forager societies, such as the Basarwa, Pygmies, Hadza and others.
Foragers have been seen as culturally similar in that they all
pursue a subsistence strategy that emphasizes hunting and
gathering. However, research suggests there may be more diversity
among groups than has previously been acknowledged. It is important
to understand why diversity occurs within foraging societies and
how this diversity compares with various societies. Here, leading
scholars in the field compare and contrast various groups within
more broadly defined forager societies. The chapters, which range
in orientation from symbolic to ecological and behavioural, are
based on rich ethnographic detail and the volume provides
invaluable data on hunter-gatherer life that will interest anyone
concerned with past or present foragers.
Farmers as hunters analyses from an essentially ethnographic
perspective the role of hunters in small-scale farming societies.
The twelve contributors examine the effects of hunting and mobility
on behaviour, diet, economy and material culture at both
culture-specific and cross-cultural levels. The influence of
sedentism and the increasing use of domesticates is also explored
across a wide range of societies from the American southwest and
Amazonian to Africa, New Guinea and the Phillipines. Differing
perceptions of the status of animals and plants are reviewed and
cultural values are throughout given due weight in a field where
discussion too often verges on the economically deterministic.
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