Forager-traders in south and southeast Asia : long-term histories /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002. |
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| Description: | xxi, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4786783 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 052181572X 0521016363 |
