Indigenous South Americans Of The Past And Present: An Ecological Perspective

by David J. Wilson

Overview

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 ov

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367316211
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/28/2019
Pages:	503
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David J. Wilson is associate professor of anthropology and director of undergraduate at Southern Methodist University.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Uses ethnographical and archaeological data and an updated paradigm derived from the best features of cultural ecology and ecological anthropology to describe and examine some 15 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. Detailed presentations and critiques are made of theories based on South American data that have implications for our understanding of prehistoric and recent adaptive systems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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