Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands

edited by Robert Whallon and William A. Lovis

Book cover: Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands

Extent: 384 pages

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Subjects: Anthropology, World Archaeology

Series: Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives

Series volume number: 5

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(February 2011)

ISBN: 9781931745642

5.94 x 9.02 inches

Price: $25.00

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Hardback (Published)

(February 2011)

ISBN: 9781931745635

5.94 x 9.02 inches

Price: $40.00

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PDF (Published)

(December 2011)

ISBN: 9781938770203

Price: $20.00

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.

  • Edited by Robert K. Hitchcock
  • Edited by William A. Lovis
  • Edited by Robert Whallon