The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru - Couverture souple

Flannery, Kent V.; Marcus, Joyce; Reynolds, Robert G.

 
9780122598364: The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru
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ISBN 10 : 0122598369 ISBN 13 : 9780122598364
Editeur : Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, 1989

Synopsis

In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. Data on herd dynamics are subjected to computer modeling in an effort to evaluate the roles of biology, symbolic and ritual behavior, ecological adaptation, and practical reason. The book contains the most detailed study of the waytakuy llama marking ceremony yet available. The role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going to extinction is evaluated against anthropological and sociobiological theory. This is an interdisciplinary book will appeal to professional archaeologists, prehistorians, cultural anthropologists, Andeanists, theoretical biologists, evolutionary biologists, and zoologists interested in animal domestication.

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In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. Data on herd dynamics are subjected to computer modeling in an effort to evaluate the roles of biology, symbolic and ritual behavior, ecological adaptation, and practical reason. The book contains the most detailed study of the waytakuy llama marking ceremony yet available. The role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going to extinction is evaluated against anthropological and sociobiological theory. This is an interdisciplinary book will appeal to professional archaeologists, prehistorians, cultural anthropologists, Andeanists, theoretical biologists, evolutionary biologists, and zoologists interested in animal domestication.

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Éditeur
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0122598369
ISBN 13 
9780122598364
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
239
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9781598744606: The Flocks of the Wamani

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1598744607 ISBN 13 :  9781598744606
Editeur : Routledge, 2010
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