Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological and Evo
β Robert L. Bettinger (auth.)
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1991
π Springer US
π English
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Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory
β Scribed by Robert L. Bettinger, Raven Garvey, Shannon Tushingham (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 308
- Series
- Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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 sub disciplines.
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 developmentsβsome of them the authorsβ ownβparticularly 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.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Progressive Social Evolution and Hunter-Gatherers....Pages 3-31
The History of Americanist Hunter-Gatherer Research....Pages 33-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Middle-Range Theory and Hunter-Gatherers....Pages 67-89
Hunter-Gatherers as Optimal Foragers....Pages 91-138
More Complex Models of Optimal Behavior Among Hunter-Gatherers....Pages 139-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Marxist and Structural Marxist Perspectives of Hunter-Gatherers....Pages 163-185
Neo-Darwinian Theory and Hunter-Gatherers....Pages 187-237
Hunter-Gatherers and Neo-Darwinian Cultural Transmission....Pages 239-278
Hunter-Gatherers: Problems in Theory....Pages 279-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-304
β¦ Subjects
Archaeology; Anthropology; Evolutionary Biology
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