Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories

Book Overview

In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living - in whole or part - through gathering and hunting, producing not only subsistence goods but commodities destined for regional and even world markets. These forager-traders have had an ambiguous position in ethnographic analysis, variously represented as relics, degraded hunter-gatherers, or recent upstarts. Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia adopts a multidisciplinary approach to these groups, presenting a series of comparative case-studies that analyse the long-term histories of hunting, gathering, trading, power relations, and regional social and biological interactions in this critical region. This book is a fascinating and important addition to the current 'revisionist' debate, and a unique attempt to re-conceptualize our knowledge of forager-traders within the surrounding context of complex polities, populations and economies in South and Southeast Asia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521016363
• ISBN13: 9780521016360
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.6"