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Title
Hunter-gatherers [electronic resource] : archaeological and evolutionary theory / Robert L. Bettinger, Raven Garvey, Shannon Tushingham.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9781489975812 electronic book
1489975810 electronic book
9781489975805
Published
New York : Springer, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-1-4899-7581-2 doi
Call Number
GN799.H84
Dewey Decimal Classification
930.1
Summary
Hunter-gatherer research has played a historically central role in the development of anthropological and evolutionary theory. Today, research in this traditional and enduringly vital field blurs lines of distinction between archaeology and ethnology, and seeks instead to develop perspectives and theories broadly applicable to anthropology and its many subdisciplines. In the groundbreaking first edition of Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory (1991), Robert Bettinger presented an integrative perspective on hunter-gatherer research and advanced a theoretical approach compatible with both traditional anthropological and contemporary evolutionary theories. Hunter-Gatherers remains a well-respected and much-cited text, now over 20 years since initial publication. Yet, as in other vibrant fields of study, the last two decades have seen important empirical and theoretical advances. In this second edition of Hunter-Gatherers, co-authors Robert Bettinger, Raven Garvey, and Shannon Tushingham offer a revised and expanded version of the classic text, which includes a succinct and provocative critical synthesis of hunter-gatherer and evolutionary theory, from the Enlightenment to the present. New and expanded sections relate and react to recent developments--some of them the authors' own--particularly in the realms of optimal foraging and cultural transmission theories. An exceptionally informative and ambitious volume on cultural evolutionary theory, Hunter-Gatherers, second edition, is an essential addition to the libraries of anthropologists, archaeologists, and human ecologists alike.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 10, 2015).
Series
Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology.
Part I. Historical Approaches to Hunter-Gatherers
Chapter 1: Progressive Social Evolution and Hunter-Gatherers
Chapter 2: The History of Americanist Hunter-Gatherer Research
Part II. Theories of Limited Sets
Chapter 3: Middle-Range Theory and Hunter-Gatherers
Chapter 4: Hunter-Gatherers as Optimal Foragers
Chapter 5: More Complex Models of Optimal Behavior among Hunter-Gatherers
Part III. Theories of General Sets
Chapter 6: Marxist and Structural Marxist Perspectives of Hunter-Gatherers
Chapter 7: Neo-Darwinian Theory and Hunter-Gatherers
Chapter 8: Hunter-Gatherers and Neo-Darwinian Cultural Transmission
Chapter 9: Hunter-Gatherers: Problems in Theory.
