African Foragers: Environment, Technology, Interactions - Couverture souple

Kusimba, Sibel Barut

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 075910154X ISBN 13 : 9780759101548

Editeur : AltaMira Press, 2003

Synopsis

Foraging bands were the quintessential form of human social organization for most of prehistory. Current arguments rage on the genesis of the contemporary descendants of these hunter-gatherers and their applicability to our understanding of lifeways before agriculture and domestication of animals. Sibel Barut Kusimba addresses this debate by synthesizing the archaeological evidence in Africa from the Middle Stone Age to the present, where the greatest time depth of foraging cultures can be traced. She develops a comprehensive picture of these foundational human societies, their social and technological adaptations to environmental conditions, and the impact of interaction from later economic systems on their lifeways. The book should be of importance to both cultural and archaeological anthropologists and their students.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sibel Kusimba is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lawrence University and an Adjunct Curator of Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AltaMira Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 075910154X
• ISBN 13: 9780759101548
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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