Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia

Long-Term Histories

Kathleen D Morrison editor Laura L Junker editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:5th Dec '02

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This hardback is available in another edition too:

Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia cover

A unique re-assessment of forager-trader groups within the complex historical worlds of South and Southeast Asia.

In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living through various combinations of foraging and hunting. This book uses a series of detailed comparative case-studies to re-evaluate forager-trader groups and place them within the surrounding political, economic and social worlds of South and Southeast Asia.In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living - in whole or part - through gathering and hunting, producing not only subsistence goods but commodities destined for regional and even world markets. These forager-traders have had an ambiguous position in ethnographic analysis, variously represented as relics, degraded hunter-gatherers, or recent upstarts. Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia adopts a multidisciplinary approach to these groups, presenting a series of comparative case-studies that analyse the long-term histories of hunting, gathering, trading, power relations, and regional social and biological interactions in this critical region. This book is a fascinating and important addition to the current 'revisionist' debate, and a unique attempt to re-conceptualize our knowledge of forager-traders within the surrounding context of complex polities, populations and economies in South and Southeast Asia.

"An excellent overview of the prehistory of South and Southeast Asia and the long history of contact between foragers and agriculturalists in these areas...the general themes of long-term histories and changing adaptations in this volume are very relevant from a global perspective including North american Prehistory." Canadian Journal of Archaeology

ISBN: 9780521815727

Dimensions: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm

Weight: 753g

312 pages