ISBN:
978-3-8394-6099-3
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978-3-8376-6099-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (229 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
Series Statement:
Edition Kulturwissenschaft Volume 263
Keywords:
Kulturanthropologie Ethnologie
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Soziale Beziehung
;
Jäger und Sammler
;
Ethnizität
;
Soziologie
;
Sozialwissenschaft
Abstract:
Scale matters. When conducting research and writing, scholars upscale and downscale. So do the subjects of their work - we scale, they scale. Although scaling is an integrant part of research, we rarely reflect on scaling as a practice and what happens when we engage with it in scholarly work. The contributors aim to change this: they explore the pitfalls and potentials of scaling in an interdisciplinary dialogue. The volume brings together scholars from diverse fields, working on different geographical areas and time periods, to engage with scale-conscious questions regarding human sociality, culture, and evolution. (Verlagsangabe)
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why scale matters / Thomas Widlok -- How do we scale hunter-gatherers` social networks? Towards bridging interdisciplinary gaps / Nurit Bird-David. Comment by Charlotte Damm. Comment by Bram Tucker -- What good is archaeology? Archaeological and ethnographic scales / Robert L. Kelly. Comment by Graeme Warren. Comment by Brian Codding -- Upscaling forager mobility and broadening forager relations / Thomas Widlok and Stephan Henn. Comment by Robert L. Kelly -- Scales of interaction. Quantity and quality of encounters amongst northern foragers / Charlotte Damm. Comment by Elspeth Ready. Comment by Andreas Maier -- A large-scale view on `small-scale societies` / Andreas Maier, Isabell Schmidt, and Andreas Zimmermann. Comment by Robert L. Kelly. Comment by Graeme Warren -- Socioecological factors influence hunter-gatherers: group size, lifetime interactions, and emergent properties of culture / Brian F. Codding, Kasey Cole, and Kurt M. Wilson. Comment by Andreas Maier -- Scale and Inuit social relations: Ilagiit, parts of each other / Elspeth Ready. Comment by Brian Codding -- Mikea, Malagasy, or hunter-gatherers? Scale, ethnicity, and cultural groups in ethnographic description and ethnological analysis / Bram Tucker. Comment by Thomas Widlok -- Scaling an island of hunter-gatherers: Writing the Mesolithic of Ireland / Graeme Warren. Comment by Charlotte Damm. Comment by Bram Tucker -- Authors` biographies
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