Maritime Adaptations of the Pacific

Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION: Maritime Anthropology / CASTEEL, RICHARD W. / QUIMBY, GEORGE I. -- The Effects of Social Change on Marine Technology in a Pacific Atoll Community / NASON, JAMES D. -- Some Studies of the Influences of Prehistoric Human Predation on Marine Animal Population Dynamics / SHAWCROSS, WILFRED -- Problems of the Origin of Ancient Sea Hunter's Cultures in the Northern Pacific / VASILIEVSKY, R. S. -- Cultural and Social Change in the Modes of Ownership of Stone Tidal Weirs / NISHIMURA, ASAHITARO -- Early Maritime Cultural Orientations in Prehistoric Chile / TRUE, D. L. -- Fishing Effort in the Aboriginal Fisheries of the Santa Barbara Region, California: An Ethnohistorical Appraisal / LANDBERG, LEIF C. W. -- Technological Continuity and Change within a Persistent Maritime Adaptation: Kodiak Island, Alaska / CLARK, DONALD W. -- On the Distribution of Kuskowagamuit Fishcamps: A Study in the Ecology of Adaptative Radiation / MADDOX, DARRYL M. -- Traditional and Contemporary Fishing Cultures on the Soviet Pacific Coast / TAKSAMI, CHUNER M. -- Chinese Fishermen in Hong Kong and in Malaysia / ANDERSON, ¿. N. -- Prehistoric Fauna and Economy in the Solomon Islands / CRAM, C. L. -- The Risks of Dietary Change: A Pacific Atoll Example / POLLOCK, NANCY J. -- Marine Fishing in Archaeological Perspective: Techniques for Determining Fishing Strategies / COUTTS, PETER J. F. -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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• Assisted by: Richard W. Casteel (Editor), Passeron (Editor), Passeron (Editor), Jean-Claude Passeron (Editor), Richar W Casteel (Editor), Richard W Casteel (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1975
• EAN: 9789027976192
• ISBN: 978-90-279-7619-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 29 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 706 g
• Illustrations: Num. figs.
• Series: World Anthropology; World Anthropology
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories