Engineering Mountain Landscapes - An Anthropology of Social Investment

Informationen zum Autor Laura L. Scheiber is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the William R. Adams Zooarchaeology Laboratory at Indiana University, and coeditor of two books. Her research interests include hunter-gatherer identities, zooarchaeology, ethnohistory, and culture contact and colonialism. María N. Zedeño is a research anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She has authored one monograph and coedited three books. Her research focuses on contemporary archaeological theory and North America's hunter-gatherer societies, past and present. Klappentext Humans have occupied mountain environments and relied on mountain resources since the terminal Pleistocene. Their continuous interaction with the land from generation to generation has left material imprints ranging from anthropogenic fires to vision quest sites. The diverse case studies presented in this collection explore the material record of North American mountain dwellers and habitual users of high-elevation resources in terms of social investment. Zusammenfassung How humans transformed mountains and other elevated areas into culturally rich living places through tangible and intangible social practices

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• Authors: Laura L. (EDT)/ Zede o Scheiber, Laura L. (EDT)/ Zede±o Scheiber
• Assisted by: Laura L Scheiber (Editor), Laura L. Scheiber (Editor), Maria N. Zedeno (Editor), Maria Nieves Zedeno (Editor), María N Zedeño (Editor), María N. Zedeño (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Utah Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781607814337
• ISBN: 978-1-60781-433-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works