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Nukak : ethnoarcheology of an Amazonian people / Gustavo G. Politis ; translated by Benjamin Alberti.

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From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the first in-depth study in English of the last "undiscovered" people of the Amazon. His work is groundbreaking and urgent, both because of encroaching guerrilla violence that makes Nukak existence perilous...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Politis, Gustavo
Other Authors: Alberti, Benjamin, 1968- (Translator)
Other title:Nukak. English
Ethnoarcheology of an Amazonian people
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2007.
Series:Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Subjects:
Nukak Indians > Social life and customs.
Hunting and gathering societies > Colombia.
Indians of South America > Colombia.
Colombia > History.
Indians of South America.
Hunting and gathering societies.
Colombia.
Instructional and educational works.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Theory and methods : ethics and techniques
  • Sociopolitical organization and cosmology
  • Shelters and camps
  • The use of space and discard patterns
  • Residential and logistical mobility : daily foraging trips
  • Traditional technology
  • Subsistence
  • Animal exploitation, processing, and discard
  • Final considerations
  • Appendix I. Sample of daily foraging trips
  • Appendix II. Patterns of bone representation and surface bone modification caused by Nukak prey acquisition / Gustavo A. Martínez.

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