Thursday, January 22, 2015

Wild surmises on savage thoughs, Schrire, 1984

Schrire, C. (1984)
Schrire seeks to understand the way hunter-gatherers have been incorporated into archaeological and historical perspectives. She emphasizes the small-minded perspectives used when analyzing hunter-gatherer societies (except for Buch's multidisciplinary exploration of the Caribou Eskimoes, which weds archaeology, history, and linguistics with meteorological info) Often researchers treat hunter-gatherers as if they haven't had a history of their own. In the future, she suggests a broader perspective to be implemented which frees hunter-gatherers from being frozen in time.

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