Forager-traders in south and southeast Asia
Subtitle: long-term histories
By: edited by Kathleen D. Morrison and Laura L. Junker.
Contributors: Morrison, Kathleen D.; Junker, Laura Lee, 1958-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Hunting and gathering societies -- Asia, Southeastern -- History; Southeast Asia -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Historicizing adaptation, adapting to history: forager-traders in South and Southeast Asia -- Kathleen D. Morrison -- Part I. South Asia:; title: Introduction -- Kathleen D. Morrison; title: Hunting and gathering strategies in prehistoric India: a biocultural perspective on trade and subsistence -- John R. Lukacs; title: Harappans and hunters: economic interaction and specialization in prehistoric India -- Gregory L. Possehl; title: Gender and social organization in the reliefs of the Nilgiri Hills -- Allen Zagarell; title: Pepper in the hills: upland-lowland exchange and the intensification of the spice trade -- Kathleen D. Morrison -- Part II. Southeast Asia:; title: Introduction -- Laura L. Junker; title: Hunters and traders in northern Australia -- Sandra Bowdler; title: Foragers, farmers, and traders in the Malayan Peninsula: origins of cultural and biological diversity -- Alan Fix; title: Economic specialization and inter-ethnic trade between foragers and farmers in the prehispanic Philippines -- Laura L. Junker