The foraging spectrum; diversity in hunter-gatherer lifeways. (reprint, 1995).9780975273883 The foraging spectrum; diversity in hunter-gatherer lifeways. (reprint reprint An individually bound copy of an article in a journal or science communication , 1995) Kelly, Robert L. Percheron Press 2007 446 pages $35.00 Paperback GN388 Kelly (anthropology, U. of Wyoming) describes the remarkably complex structures and practices of foraging cultures, such as those in which members store up good will to tide them over the times they cannot hunt or gather. After a solid introduction to the place of foraging societies in anthropology and anthropological theories about environment and evolution from an point of view, Kelly considers a range of aspects of foraging societies, describing studies on mobility, sharing and exchange, land tenure land tenure: see tenure, in law. , group size and reproduction, the roles of men and women, egalitarian e·gal·i·tar·i·an adj. Affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people. and nonegalitarian hunter-gatherers, and of the probable systems of foraging in prehistory prehistory, period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to . Percheron Press is the reprint imprint im·print tr.v. im·print·ed, im·print·ing, im·prints 1. To produce (a mark or pattern) on a surface by pressure. 2. To produce a mark on (a surface) by pressure. 3. of Eliot Werner Publications. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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