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Feedbacks, Critical Transitions and Social Change in Forager-Resource Systems An Integrated Modeling and Ethnoarchaeological Analysis.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Feedbacks, Critical Transitions and Social Change in Forager-Resource Systems An Integrated Modeling and Ethnoarchaeological Analysis./
Author:	Freeman, Jacob.
Description:	206 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-08A(E).
Subject:	Anthropology, Physical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3618099
ISBN:	9781303861536

Feedbacks, Critical Transitions and Social Change in Forager-Resource Systems An Integrated Modeling and Ethnoarchaeological Analysis.
Freeman, Jacob.

Feedbacks, Critical Transitions and Social Change in Forager-Resource Systems An Integrated Modeling and Ethnoarchaeological Analysis. - 206 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

My dissertation contributes to a body of knowledge useful for understanding the evolution of subsistence economies based on agriculture from those based on hunting and gathering, as well as the development of formal rules and norms of territorial ownership in hunter-gatherer societies. My research specifically combines simple formal and conceptual models with the empirical analysis of large ethnographic and environmental data sets to study feedback processes in coupled forager-resource systems. I use the formal and conceptual models of forager-resource systems as tools that aid in the development of two alternative arguments that may explain the adoption of food production and formal territorial ownership among hunter-gatherers. I call these arguments the Uncertainty Reduction Hypothesis and the Social Opportunity Hypothesis. Based on the logic of these arguments, I develop expectations for patterns of food production and formal territorial ownership documented in the ethnographic record of hunter-gatherer societies and evaluate these expectations with large ethnographic and environmental data sets. My analysis suggests that the Uncertainty Reduction Hypothesis is more consistent with the data than the Social Opportunity Hypothesis. Overall, my approach combines the intellectual frameworks of evolutionary ecology and resilience thinking. The result is a theory of subsistence change that integrates elements of three classic models of economic development with deep intellectual roots in human ecology: The Malthusian, Boserupian and Weberian models. A final take home message of my study is that evolutionary ecology and resilience thinking are complementary frameworks for archaeologists who study the transition from hunting and gathering to farming.

ISBN: 9781303861536Subjects--Topical Terms:

877524
Anthropology, Physical.

Feedbacks, Critical Transitions and Social Change in Forager-Resource Systems An Integrated Modeling and Ethnoarchaeological Analysis.
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