Indigenous South Americans Of The Past And Present

An Ecological Perspective
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-31621-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 873 g

Utilizing ethnographic and archaeological data and an updated paradigm derived from the best features of cultural ecology and ecological anthropology, this extensively illustrated book addresses over fifteen South American adaptive systems representing a broad cross section of band, village, chiefdom, and state societies throughout the continent ov

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, David J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction -- Theoretical Approach -- An Overview of South American Environments -- Subsistence and Sociocultural Development -- Band Societies Present and Past -- Amazonian Villages and Chiefdoms -- Northwest Villages and Chiefdoms -- Contemporary Central Andean Villages -- Prehistoric Central Andean States -- Toward a Scientific Paradigm in South Americanist Studies

Über Autor(innen)

David J. Wilson is associate professor of anthropology and director of undergraduate at Southern Methodist University.