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

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

 
9781138403444: The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru
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ISBN 10: 113840344X ISBN 13: 9781138403444
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

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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Robert G Reynolds, Kent V Flannery, Joyce Marcus

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113840344X
ISBN 13 
9781138403444
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
251

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