Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia

Long-Term Histories

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living - in whole or part - through gathering and hunting, producing not only subsistence goods but commodities destined for regional and even world markets. These forager-traders have had an ambiguous position in ethnographic analysis, variously represented as relics, degraded hunter-gatherers, or recent upstarts. Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia adopts a multidisciplinary approach to these groups, presenting a series of comparative case-studies that analyse the long-term histories of hunting, gathering, trading, power relations, and regional social and biological interactions in this critical region. This book is a fascinating and important addition to the current 'revisionist' debate, and a unique attempt to re-conceptualize our knowledge of forager-traders within the surrounding context of complex polities, populations and economies in South and Southeast Asia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2002-12-05
Mått175 x 247 x 21 mm
Vikt620 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521016360

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