Us, Relatives: Scaling and Plural Life in a Forager World Volume 12

by Nurit Bird-David

Book Overview

Anthropologists have long looked to forager-cultivator cultures for insights into human lifeways. But they have often not been attentive enough to locals' horizons of concern and to the enormous disparity in population size between these groups and other societies. Us, Relatives explores how scalar blindness skews our understanding of these cultures and the debates they inspire. Drawing on her long-term research with a community of South Asian foragers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520293428
• ISBN13: 9780520293427
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"