The ethnography of south asian foragers

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2009, Pages 99-114

  Fortier, Jana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contemporary hunter gatherers; Cultural resilience; Egalitarian societies; Human ecology; Indigenous peoples; Subsistence foraging

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANTHROPOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHICAL THEORY; HUNTER-GATHERER; HUNTING; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; STATE ROLE; SUBSISTENCE; TRADE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70350434505     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-091908-164345     Document Type: Article

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