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| Author | : Robert L. Bettinger |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2015-01-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520959191 |
Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social complexity and inequality to explain this diversity. Robert L. Bettinger argues instead that "orderly anarchy," the emergence of small, autonomous groups, provided a crucial strategy in social organization. Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological data and evolutionary, economic, and anthropological theory, he shows that these small groups devised diverse solutions to environmental, technological, and social obstacles to the intensified use of resources. This book revises our understanding of how California became the most densely populated landscape in aboriginal North America.
| Author | : PERISIC |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2014-06-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1483294676 |
Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange
| Author | : Robert L. Kelly |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1107355095 |
In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.
| Author | : Herbert Edgar Wright |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 145290796X |
| Author | : Clarence A. Hall Jr. |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 511 |
| Release | : 2024-03-29 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0520319508 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : California |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Timothy R. Pauketat |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 693 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0190241098 |
The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology reviews the continent's first and last foragers, farmers, and great pre-Columbian civic and ceremonial centers, from Chaco Canyon to Moundville and beyond.
| Author | : Val Attenbrow |
| Publisher | : ANU E Press |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2007-02-01 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1921313056 |
The Upper Mangrove Creek catchment was an ideal locality in which to undertake field investigation into Aboriginal use of the coastal hinterland. The area, 101 square kilometres in size, is rich in sites that provided significant archaeological evidence of Aboriginal use of the coastal hinterland. The catchment became the focus of major archaeological salvage work in the late 1970s, prior to the construction of the Mangrove Creek Dam. Further research, undertaken by Val Attenbrow, on the total catchment expanded upon the results of earlier work. This monograph describes the later research project and summarises the salvage program results. This evidence is used by the author to explore current research issues relating to the interpretation of the mid- to late-Holocene archaeological record in Australia, particularly quantitative changes relating to population numbers and aspects of human behaviour, such as risk management, subsistence, mobility and land-use patterns.
| Author | : Michael Hittman |
| Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
| Total Pages | : 670 |
| Release | : 2013-06-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0874179106 |
The Native American inhabitants of North America’s Great Basin have a long, eventful history and rich cultures. Great Basin Indians: An Encyclopedic History covers all aspects of their world. The book is organized in an encyclopedic format to allow full discussion of many diverse topics, including geography, religion, significant individuals, the impact of Euro-American settlement, wars, tribes and intertribal relations, reservations, federal policies regarding Native Americans, scholarly theories regarding their prehistory, and others. Author Michael Hittman employs a vast range of archival and secondary sources as well as interviews, and he addresses the fruits of such recent methodologies as DNA analysis and gender studies that offer new insights into the lives and history of these enduring inhabitants of one of North America’s most challenging environments. Great Basin Indians is an essential resource for any reader interested in the Native peoples of the American West and in western history in general.
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| Total Pages | : 722 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : America |
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