Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands

Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands
ISBN-10
193877020X
ISBN-13
9781938770203
Category
Social Science
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2011-12-31
Publisher
ISD LLC
Authors
Robert K. Hitchcock, Robert Whallon, William A. Lovis

Description

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.

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