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Maritime Adaptations of the Pacific /

Maritime Adaptations of the Pacific / ed. by Jean-Claude Passeron, Richard W. Casteel. - Reprint 2011 - 1 online resource (320 p.) : Num. figs. - World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series .

I-X -- INTRODUCTION: Maritime Anthropology -- The Effects of Social Change on Marine Technology in a Pacific Atoll Community -- Some Studies of the Influences of Prehistoric Human Predation on Marine Animal Population Dynamics -- Problems of the Origin of Ancient Sea Hunter's Cultures in the Northern Pacific -- Cultural and Social Change in the Modes of Ownership of Stone Tidal Weirs -- Early Maritime Cultural Orientations in Prehistoric Chile -- Fishing Effort in the Aboriginal Fisheries of the Santa Barbara Region, California: An Ethnohistorical Appraisal -- Technological Continuity and Change within a Persistent Maritime Adaptation: Kodiak Island, Alaska -- On the Distribution of Kuskowagamuit Fishcamps: A Study in the Ecology of Adaptative Radiation -- Traditional and Contemporary Fishing Cultures on the Soviet Pacific Coast -- Chinese Fishermen in Hong Kong and in Malaysia -- Prehistoric Fauna and Economy in the Solomon Islands -- The Risks of Dietary Change: A Pacific Atoll Example -- Marine Fishing in Archaeological Perspective: Techniques for Determining Fishing Strategies -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9789027976192 9783110879902

10.1515/9783110879902 doi


Ethnology--Pacific Area--Congresses.
Maritime anthropology--Congresses.
Maritime anthropology.
Pacific Area.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.

GN386.I58 1975eb / .I58 1973

301.29/9