1st Edition

Nukak Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People

By Gustavo Politis Copyright 2007
412 Pages
by Routledge

412 Pages
by Routledge

412 Pages
by Routledge

From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the first in-depth study in English of the last “undiscovered” people of the Amazon. His work is groundbreaking and urgent, both because of encroaching guerrilla violence that makes Nukak existence perilously fragile, and because his work with the Nukak represented one of the last opportunities to conduct research... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Theory and Methods; 3: Sociopolitical Organization and Cosmology; 4: Shelters and Camps; 5: The Use of Space and Discard Patterns; 6: Residential and Logistical Mobility; 7: Traditional Technology; 8: Subsistence; 9: Animal Exploitation, Processing, and Discard; 10: Final Considerations

Biography

Gustavo Politis