Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories

Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia:Long-Term Histories

by: Kathleen D. Morrison (Editor) › Visit Amazon's Kathleen D. Morrison Page See search results for this author Kathleen D. Morrison (Editor), Laura L. Junker (Editor)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Illustrated edition (5 Dec. 2002)

Language: English

Print length: 312 pages

ISBN-10: 052181572X

ISBN-13: 9780521815727

Book Description

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.