Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics - Case Studies from Food-Producing Societies

The papers in this volume examine the sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors that condition spatial patterning of human behavior in food-producing (both agricultural and pastoral) societies. The spatially patterned material manifestations of that behavior are considered in the light of archaeological and ethnographical examples. Most papers combine both sources of data, drawn primarily from Africa, while one paper focuses on the ancient Near East.

List of contents

Introductory note to spatial boundaries and social dynamics; rounds, recycling and the buildup of an upward spiral, Augustin Holl; archaeological considerations on social dynamics and spatial pattern development of traditional settlements, Kofi E. Agorsah; agrarian settlement and the spatial disposition of labour, Glenn Davis Stone; community interaction and settlement patterning in northern Cameroon, Augustin Holl; production, space and social change in proto-historic Palestine, Thomas E. Levy; traditional iron technology and settlement patterns in central Darfur, Ibrahim Musa; Late Neolithic cultural landscapes in southeastern Mauritania - an essay in spatiometrics, Augustine Holl.

About the author

Augustin Holl is Professor of Anthropology and Afro-Ameican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, and a Curator at the University's Museum of Anthropology.

Summary

A collection of 7 ethnoarchaeological case studies from food-producing societies.

Product details

• Authors: Augustin Holl
• Assisted by: Augustin Holl (Editor), Thomas Evan Levy (Editor)
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1993
• EAN: 9781879621046
• ISBN: 978-1-879621-04-6
• No. of pages: 133
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 277 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Ethnoarchaeological Series; Ethnoarchaeological S.; Women/Cancer/Fear/Power Series; International Monographs in Pr; Ethnoarchaeological Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology