Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands

Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired, stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies, or bands. Given the nature of this question, the volume brings together a group of scholars from multiple disciplines, including archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and evolutionary ecology. Each of these specialties deals with the question of information in different ways and with different sets of data given different primacy. The fundamental goal of the volume is to bridge disciplines and subdisciplines, open discussion, and see if some common ground-either theoretical perspectives, general principles, or methodologies-can be developed upon which to build future research on the role of information in hunter-gatherer bands.

Summary

Explores the question of how information is acquired, stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies. Brings together scholars from multiple disciplines, including archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and evolutionary ecology to open discussion, and identify common ground on which build future research.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Lovis Whallon
• Assisted by: Robert Whallon (Editor), William A. Lovis (Editor), Robert K. Hitchcock (Editor), Robert Hitchcock (Editor), Robert K Hitchcock (Editor), William A Lovis (Editor)
• Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.05.2011
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781931745642
• ISBN: 978-1-931745-64-2
• Pages: 384
• Series: Ideas, Debates, and Perspectiv > 05; Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives; Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives; Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press; Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
• Subjects: HISTORY / Social History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology