Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People by Politis, Gustavo

Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781598742299)

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Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People by Politis, Gustavo

Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People

$200.00
Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People by Politis, Gustavo

Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the first in-depth study in English of the last "undiscovered" people of the Amazon. His work is groundbreaking and urgent, both because of encroaching guerrilla violence that makes Nukak existence perilously fragile, and because his work with the Nukak represented one of the last opportunities to conduct research with hunter-gatherers using contemporary methodological and the theoretical tools. Through a rich and comprehensive ethno-archaeological portrait of material culture "in the making," this work makes methodological and conceptual advances in the interpretation of hunter-gather societies. Politis's conclusions, based on six years of original research and on comparative analysis, are integrative and contribute to the identification of the multiple factors involved in the formation of hunter-gatherer archaeological assemblages.

Author: Gustavo Politis
ISBN-10: 1598742299
ISBN-13: 9781598742299
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 412
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d

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Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 74
By Gustavo Politis
By Gustavo Politis
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Gustavo Politis is a professor of archaeology at the Universidad Nacional del Centro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, is one of the most renowned South American archaeologists in the English-speaking world. He has held visiting lectureships around the world, including at Cambridge University, University of Southampton, and Stanford University. He is author and editor of many books, including Archaeology in Latin America (ed. with B. Alberti, Routledge, 1999), and has contributed to many key reference books, including Theory in Archaeology, The Blackwell Companion to Social Archaeology, Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, and Unknown Amazon.

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