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A01=Kent V Flannery
A01=Robert G Reynolds
Alpine Tundra
Andean ethnography
Andean Winter
Arenaria
Author_Joyce Marcus
Author_Kent V Flannery
Author_Robert G Reynolds
ayacucho
Ayacucho Basin
Ayllu Members
basin
BIR
Camelid Domestication
Can
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Category=NKD
Ceremonial Bundle
computer modeling of herd management
Donor Herd
dual
Dual Inheritance Theory
dynamics
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evolutionary anthropology
Faba Beans
Female Llamas
Frequency Dependent Bias
herd
Herd Dynamics
Herd Owner
herders
inheritance
Initial Herd
IST
llama
Llama Herders
Naive Individual
NC NC
oliver
Oliver Twist
pastoralism adaptation
puna ecology
ritual animal marking
sociobiological analysis
Surf City
Tropaeolum Tuberosum
twist
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781598744606
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Robert G Reynolds, Kent V Flannery, Joyce Marcus
