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Indigenous South Americans Of The Past And Present : an Ecological Perspective.
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, chiefdo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Westview Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; South American Indigenous Groups; Scope of this Book; 2. Theoretical Approach; Historical Background; Perspective of this Book; 3. An Overview of South American Environments; Continent Formation; Environmental Zones; 4. Subsistence and Sociocultural Development; Subsistence Productivity; Productivity and Sociopolitical Integration; Andean Cultivars; Agricultural Origins; Later Andean Cultivars; Hallucinogenic Plants; Kallawaya Medicinal Herbs; 5. Band Societies Present and Past; Band-Level Marginality; The Ona and Yahgan.
- The NukakThe Paleoindian Period; 6. Amazonian Villages and Chiefdoms; Environments and Adaptation; The Mundurucu, Yanomamo, and Shuar-Jivaro; The Desana; The Omagua; Roosevelt's and Clastres's Models; 7. Northwest Villages and Chiefdoms; The Kogi; The Tairona Predecessors; Valdivia Culture; 8. Contemporary Central Andean Villages; Adaptation to the Sierra; The Q'eros Quechua; The Kallawaya; 9. Preshistoric Central Andean States; Adaptation to Coastal Peru; Moseley's Maritime Complexity Model; Carneiro's Coercive Model; The Chavin Cult; The Moche; The Inca.
- 10. Toward a Scientific Paradigm in South Americanist StudiesThe Systems-Hierarchical Evolutionary Paradigm; Other Paradigms, Other Models; Indigenous Adaptive Systems; Glossary; References; Index.