1st Edition
Indigenous South Americans Of The Past And Present An Ecological Perspective
By David J. Wilson
Copyright 1999
502 Pages
by
Routledge
504 Pages
by
Routledge
504 Pages
by
Routledge
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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, chiefdom, and state societies throughout the continent over the past 13,000 years.Indigenous South... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- Theoretical Approach -- An Overview of South American Environments -- Subsistence and Sociocultural Development -- Band Societies Present and Past -- Amazonian Villages and Chiefdoms -- Northwest Villages and Chiefdoms -- Contemporary Central Andean Villages -- Prehistoric Central Andean States -- Toward a Scientific Paradigm in South Americanist Studies
Biography
David J. Wilson
