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Nukak : ethnoarcheology of an Amazonian people /

From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the first in-depth study in English of the last "undiscovered" people of the Amazon. His work is groundbreaking and urgent, both because of encroaching guerrilla violence that makes Nukak existence perilous...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Politis, Gustavo
Otros Autores: Alberti, Benjamin, 1968- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2007.
Colección:Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Theory and methods : ethics and techniques
  • Sociopolitical organization and cosmology
  • Shelters and camps
  • The use of space and discard patterns
  • Residential and logistical mobility : daily foraging trips
  • Traditional technology
  • Subsistence
  • Animal exploitation, processing, and discard
  • Final considerations
  • Appendix I. Sample of daily foraging trips
  • Appendix II. Patterns of bone representation and surface bone modification caused by Nukak prey acquisition / Gustavo A. Martínez.