Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia
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Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia

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Does it make sense to understand the prehistory, history and present-day patterns of life in Southeast Asia in terms of a distinction between two ways of life: "farming" and "foraging"? This is the central question addressed by the anthropologists and archaeologists contributing to this volume. Inherent within the question "Why Cultivate?" are people's relationships with the physical world: are they primarily to do with subsistence and economics or with social and/or cultural forces? The answers given by the contributors are complex. On a practical level they argue that there is a continuum ra...