• ISBN13: 9781598744576
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publisher Imprint: Left Coast Press
• Publication Date: June 30, 2010
• Pages: 320
• Original Price: GBP 145.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 459 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social and Archaeology

This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders. Using historical, anthropological and archaeological data and cases from Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia, the authors examine hunter gatherer peoples--both past and present--to assess these relationships and the mechanisms by which hunter gatherers adapt and maintain elements of their culture in the wider world around them.

Carmel Schrire is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She has done archaeological and anthropological research on topics relating to Australia, the Arctic and South Africa. She is currently engaged in a long-term program of research into the early colonial contact between Europeans and indigenous people. She is author of the books Digging in Darkness and Tigers in Africa among many other publications.