Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories
, by Edited by Kathleen D. Morrison , Laura L. JunkerNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780521815727 | 052181572X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/13/2003
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.