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The Flocks of the Wamani
Kent V Flannery
Joyce Marcus
Robert G Reynolds
其他書名
A STUDY OF LLAMA HERDERS ON THE PUNAS OF AYACUCHO, PERU
出版
Left Coast Press
, 2009
主題
History / Latin America / South America
Reference / General
Social Science / General
Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Archaeology
Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry
ISBN
1598744607
9781598744606
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=efIuD20Rr-0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. Data on herd dynamics are subjected to computer modeling in an effort to evaluate the roles of biology, symbolic and ritual behavior, ecological adaptation, and practical reason. The book contains the most detailed study of the waytakuy llama marking ceremony yet available. The role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going to extinction is evaluated against anthropological and sociobiological theory. This is an interdisciplinary book will appeal to professional archaeologists, prehistorians, cultural anthropologists, Andeanists, theoretical biologists, evolutionary biologists, and zoologists interested in animal domestication.