Correlations of Exploitative and Settlement Patterns. Paper No. 19.
1969 · National Museums of Canada Bulletin 230, Contributions to Anthropology
by Murdock, George Peter.
National Museums of Canada Bulletin 230, Contributions to Anthropology: Ecological Essays, 1969. Octavo, paperbound (stapled wrappers), [21] pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner signature. It has long been recognized that the form, size, and fixity of human settlements bear a definitive relationship to the modes of exploiting the natural environment to provide subsistence. Hunting and gathering people, as is well known, tend to live in small nomadic bands, whereas those who depend on agriculture clearly tend to live a sedentary life in local groups of considerably greater magnitude. But what are the social concomitants of such alternative exploitative patterns as fishing and pastoralism?... (Inventory #: 17887scs)