TY  - GEN
AU  - Kelly, Robert L.
TI  - Lifeways of hunter-gatherers: the foraging spectrum
SN  - 9781107607613
U1  - 306.364 KEL 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Anthropology—Cultural
KW  - Hunting and Gathering Societies
KW  - Human Behavioral Ecology
KW  - Subsistence Economy—History
KW  - Prehistoric Peoples
KW  - Nomads—Social Life and Customs
N1  - Includes Bibliographical References and Index
N2  - In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.                                                                                                                                               https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/archaeology/prehistory/lifeways-hunter-gatherers-foraging-spectrum?format=HB&isbn=9781107024878
ER  -