Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics
Case Studies from Food-Producing Societies
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 1993
Book
Hardback
133 pages
978-1-879621-05-3 (ISBN)
Description
The papers in this volume examine the sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors that condition spatial patterning of human behavior in food-producing (both agricultural and pastoral) societies. The spatially patterned material manifestations of that behavior are considered in the light of archaeological and ethnographical examples. Archaeological and ethnographic data sources are drawn primarily from Africa, as well as the ancient Near East.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Library binding
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 284 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-879621-05-3 (9781879621053)
DOI
10.3167/9781879621053
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Persons
Augustin Holl is Professor of Anthropology and Afro-Ameican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, and a Curator at the University's Museum of Anthropology.
Content
Contents: Augustin Holl, Introductory Note to Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics: Rounds, Recycling, and the Buildup of an Upward Spiral; Kofi E. Agorsah, Archaeological Considerations on Social Dynamics and Spatial Pattern Development of Traditional Settlements; Glenn D. Stone, Agrarian Settlement and the Spatial Disposition of Labor; Augustin Holl, Community Interaction and Settlement Patterning in Northern Cameroon; Thomas E. Levy, Production, Space, and Social Change in Protohistoric Palestine; Ibrahim Musa, Traditional Iron Technology and Settlement Patterns in Central Darfur; Augustin Holl, Late Neolithic Cultural Landscape in Southeastern Mauritania: An Essay in Spatiometrics