Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052181572X ISBN 13: 9780521815727

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living - in whole or part - through gathering and hunting, producing not only subsistence goods but commodities destined for regional and even world markets. These forager-traders have had an ambiguous position in ethnographic analysis, variously represented as relics, degraded hunter-gatherers, or recent upstarts. Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia adopts a multidisciplinary approach to these groups, presenting a series of comparative case-studies that analyse the long-term histories of hunting, gathering, trading, power relations, and regional social and biological interactions in this critical region. This book is a fascinating and important addition to the current 'revisionist' debate, and a unique attempt to re-conceptualize our knowledge of forager-traders within the surrounding context of complex polities, populations and economies in South and Southeast Asia.

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Review:

"An excellent overview of the prehistory of South and Southeast Asia and the long history of contact between foragers and agriculturalists in these areas...the general themes of long-term histories and changing adaptations in this volume are very relevant from a global perspective including North american Prehistory." Canadian Journal of Archaeology

Book Description:

In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living through various combinations of foraging and hunting. This book uses a series of detailed comparative case-studies to re-evaluate forager-trader groups and place them within the surrounding political, economic and social worlds of South and Southeast Asia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 052181572X
• ISBN 13: 9780521815727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Morrison Kathleen D., Junker Laura L.