Scale Matters : : The Quality of Quantity in Human Culture and Sociality /

Scale Matters : : The Quality of Quantity in Human Culture and Sociality / / ed. by M. Dores Cruz, Thomas Widlok.

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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 c...

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Funder:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
MitwirkendeR:
Bird-David, Nurit,
Codding, Brian F.,
Cole, Kasey,
Damm, Charlotte,
Henn, Stephan,
Kelly, Robert L.,
Maier, Andreas,
Ready, Elspeth,
Schmidt, Isabell,
Tucker, Bram,
Warren, Graeme,
Widlok, Thomas,
Wilson, Kurt M.,
Zimmermann, Andreas,
HerausgeberIn:
Cruz, M. Dores,
Widlok, Thomas,
:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 263
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Why scale matters
  • How do we scale hunter-gatherers’ social networks?
  • What good is archaeology?
  • Upscaling forager mobility and broadening forager relations
  • Scales of interaction
  • A large-scale view on ‘small-scale societies’
  • Socioecological factors influence hunter-gatherers
  • Scale and Inuit social relations
  • Mikea, Malagasy, or hunter-gatherers?
  • Scaling an island of hunter-gatherers
  • Authors’ biographies

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