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Klappentext Farmers as hunters analyses from an essentially ethnographic perspective the role of hunters in small-scale farming societies. Zusammenfassung Farmers as hunters analyses from an essentially ethnographic perspective the role of hunters in small-scale farming societies. The twelve contributors examine the effects of hunting and mobility on behaviour! diet! economy and material culture at both culture-specific and cross-cultural levels. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Cross-cultural perceptions of farmers as hunters and the value of meat Susan Kent; 2. Hunting and male domination in Cashinahua society Kenneth M. Kensinger; 3. Stalking the wild pig: hunting and horticulture in Papua New Guinea Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel; 4. Farming and foraging: a necessary complementarity in Amazonian? Leslie E. Sponsel; 5. Patterns of foraging and gardening in a semi-sedentary Amazonian community William T. Vickers; 6. Hutning, farming and sedentism in a rain forest foraging society P. Bion Griffin; 7. Horticulture and large-mammal hunting: the role of resource depletion and the constraints of time and labour John D. Speth and Susan L. Scott; 8. Sedentism and prehistoric animal procurement among desert horticulturalists of the North American southwest Christine R. Szuter and Frank E. Bayham; 9. The myth of ecological determinism - anticipated mobility and site spatial organisation Susan Kent and Helga Vierich; 10. New directions for old studies Susan Kent; References; Index.
