Scale Matters The Quality of Quantity in Human Culture and Sociality

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Widlok, Thomas, author (author), Cruz, M. Dores, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag 2022.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Why scale matters
  • How do we scale hunter-gatherers' social networks?
  • Comment by Charlotte Damm
  • Comment by Bram Tucker
  • What good is archaeology?
  • Comment by Graeme Warren
  • Comment by Brian Codding
  • Upscaling forager mobility and broadening forager relations
  • Comment by Robert L. Kelly
  • Scales of interaction
  • Comment by Elspeth Ready
  • Comment by Andreas Maier
  • A large-scale view on 'small-scale societies'
  • Comment by Robert L. Kelly
  • Comment by Graeme Warren
  • Socioecological factors influence hunter-gatherers Comment by Andreas Maier
  • Scale and Inuit social relations
  • Comment by Brian Codding
  • Mikea, Malagasy, or hunter-gatherers?
  • Comment by Thomas Widlok
  • Scaling an island of hunter-gatherers
  • Comment by Charlotte Damm
  • Comment by Bram Tucker
  • Authors' biographies.