Farmers as Hunters

By - Kent, Susan, 1952-2003 [Author; Editor; Other]

Floor - Floor 2

Published - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1989

ISBN 10 - 0521362172

ISBN 13 - 9780521362177

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Traditional farming

Shelf No - 13

Call Number - 630.901 KEN

Physical Description - ix, 152 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Notes - Include index

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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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