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A01=Gustavo Politis
Amazonian anthropology
Amazonian Groups
AMAZONIAN HUNTER GATHERERS
archaeological
Author_Gustavo Politis
Band's Territory
Band’s Territory
Binford 1978a
Binford 1978b
camp
Category=JHM
Category=NKD
contemporary hunter-gatherer research
Coresident Group
daily
Daily Foraging Trips
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ethnoarchaeological methods
Euterpe Precatoria
Fieldwork Season
Food Taboos
foraging
Foraging Trip
guaviare
Guaviare River
Howler Monkey
hunter-gatherer mobility
indigenous subsistence strategies
Intermediate World
Logistical Mobility
material culture analysis
Nukak Territory
oenocarpus
Palm Grubs
Random Distribution Pattern
record
residential
Residential Camp
river
Secondary Refuse
spatial organization archaeology
Tapirira Guianensis
Tapirus Terrestris
trips
Ventral Carapace
White Lipped Peccary
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781598742299
- Weight: 793g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2007
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 with hunter-gatherers using contemporary methodological and the theoretical tools. Through a rich and comprehensive ethno-archaeological portrait of material culture “in the making,” this work makes methodological and conceptual advances in the interpretation of hunter-gather societies. Politis’s conclusions, based on six years of original research and on comparative analysis, are integrative and contribute to the identification of the multiple factors involved in the formation of hunter-gatherer archaeological assemblages.
Gustavo Politis is a professor of archaeology at the Universidad Nacional del Centro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, is one of the most renowned South American archaeologists in the English-speaking world. He has held visiting lectureships around the world, including at Cambridge University, University of Chicago, and Stanford University. He is author and editor of many books, including Archaeology in Latin America (ed. with B. Alberti, Routledge, 1999), and has contributed to many key reference books, including Theory in Archaeology, The Blackwell Companion to Social Archaeology, Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, and Unknown Amazon.
