Theoretical Shifts in the Anthropology of Desert Hunter-Gatherers

Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 17-33

  Widlok, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Enlightenment period; European settlers; Imagination; Photographic material

Indexed keywords

EID: 59049084518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774632.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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