The lifeways of hunter-gatherers : the foraging spectrum /

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Author / Creator:Kelly, Robert L., author.
Edition:Second edition.
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (xix, 362 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11832288
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Other uniform titles:Kelly, Robert L. Foraging spectrum.
ISBN:9781107341722
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Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Revised edition of: The foraging spectrum, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"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"--
Other form:Print version: Kelly, Robert L. Lifeways of hunter-gatherers. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107024878
Standard no.:10.1017/CBO9781139176132
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Item Description:Revised edition of: The foraging spectrum, 1995.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 362 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781107341722
1107341728
9781139176132
1139176137
9781107024878
1107024870
9781107607613
1107607612
129940894X
9781299408944
1107357594
9781107357594
1107255538
9781107255531
1107347971
9781107347977
1107345472
9781107345478
1107344220
9781107344228