The author wrote this book primarily for his archaeology students, to show them how dangerous anthropological analogy is and how variable the actual practices of foragers of the recent past and today are. His survey of anthropological literature points to differences in foraging societies' patterns of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, exchange, gender relations, division of labour, marriage, descent and political organisation. By considering the actual, not imagined, reasons behind diverse behaviour this book argues for a revision of many archaeological models of prehistory.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for students on millions of items. Learn more |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Still the best book in its field,
By
This review is from: The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways (Paperback)
This book was written a decade ago, but nothing has come along yet to replace it. If you were to read a single book on the way that foragers live and have lived, this synthesis of the vast ethnographic literature would be an excellent choice. Kelly is keen to show that foraging peoples are quite diverse, a useful perspective for those of us who tend unconsciously to focus on the traits common to all foragers. By the end of the book, one has some sense of the range of possibilities for foraging societies, and a more sophisticated appreciation of the ways in which our paleolithic ancestors lived.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Evolutionary Anthropology,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways (Paperback)
This book provides a useful historical overview of the hunter-gather literature as well as on the shifts within the anthropological discipline in terms of perspective -- from cataloging foraging groups to the revisionist literature emerging from the post-modern turn in the discipline. It's a great introduction to evolutionary anthropology and diet studies.
13 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The empirical nature of subsistence patterns,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways (Paperback)
are examined very succinctly in this text. Beginning students of hunting and foraging behaviors will realize that the answer to the question "what do we eat?" is not an arbitrary cultural choice, but is instead both measurable and predictable. According to The Foraging Spectrum, such predictions are based on geographical area, climatology, and primary production, to name a few.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
