{"product_id":"why-cultivate-anthropological-and-archaeological-graeme-barker-9781902937588","title":"Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia","description":"Does it make sense to understand the prehistory, history and present-day patterns of life in Southeast Asia in terms of a distinction between two ways of life: \"farming\" and \"foraging\"? This is the central question addressed by the anthropologists and archaeologists contributing to this volume. Inherent within the question \"Why Cultivate?\" are people's relationships with the physical world: are they primarily to do with subsistence and economics or with social and\/or cultural forces? The answers given by the contributors are complex. On a practical level they argue that there is a continuum rather than a sharp break between different levels of management of the environment, but rice-growing usually represents a profound break in people's relations to their cultural and symbolic landscapes. An associated point made by the archaeologists is that the \"deep histories\" of foraging-farming lifeways that are emerging in this region sit uncomfortably with the theory that foraging was replaced by farming in the mid Holocene as a result of a migration of Austronesian-speaking Neolithic farmers from southern China and Taiwan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Graeme Barker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1902937589\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781902937588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McDonald Institute for Archaeological Researc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.10h x 8.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2011 pg. 58","brand":"Graeme Barker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48448014713087,"sku":"9781902937588","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d9b268e-0945-4b78-8119-487362e3bea8.jpg?v=1777236322","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/why-cultivate-anthropological-and-archaeological-graeme-barker-9781902937588","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}