Edited by Robert Whallon, William Lovis, and Robert Hitchcock
(University of California Los Angeles-Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press)
Overview:
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.
Robert Whallon is professor of anthropology and curator at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at University of Michigan, and the founding editor of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. William A. Lovis (Ph.D. MSU Anthropology 1973), professor of anthropology and curator at the MSU Museum at Michigan State University, is coauthor of Modeling Archaeological Site Burial in Southern Michigan, and editor of An Upper Great Lakes Archaeological Odyssey. Robert K. Hitchcock, professor of geography at Michigan State University, is coauthor of The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence: Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa, and coeditor of Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Bibliographic Review.
Details: 256 pages, 6 x 9
Paper: $95.00 Cloth, $65 Paper
ISBN: 978-1-931745-63-5 (cloth) | 978-1-931745-64-2 (paper)
Pubdate: 2/25/2011