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

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Scale Matters

The Quality of Quantity in Human Culture and Sociality

Edited by: Thomas Widlok and M. Dores Cruz
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Volume 263 in the series Edition Kulturwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839460993

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About this book

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 contributors aim to change this: they explore the pitfalls and potentials of scaling in an interdisciplinary dialogue. The volume brings together scholars from diverse fields, working on different geographical areas and time periods, to engage with scale-conscious questions regarding human sociality, culture, and evolution.

Author / Editor information

Thomas Widlok is a professor of cultural anthropology of Africa at Universität zu Köln. He completed his MSc and PhD at London School of Economics and Political Science and was member of the CRC »Our way to Europe« at Universität zu Köln. He is a specialist in hunter-gatherer studies.
M. Dores Cruz graduated from Binghamton University (SUNY) with a Ph.D. in anthropology. She is currently a lecturer at the Institute for African Studies and Egyptology, Universität zu Köln, and specializes on African historical archaeology, landscape anthropology, and colonialism.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction: Why scale matters Thomas Widlok Open Access Download PDF	7
How do we scale hunter-gatherers’ social networks? Towards bridging interdisciplinary gaps Nurit Bird-David Open Access Download PDF	19
What good is archaeology? Archaeological and ethnographic scales Robert L. Kelly Open Access Download PDF	39
Upscaling forager mobility and broadening forager relations Thomas Widlok and Stephan Henn Open Access Download PDF	59
Scales of interaction Quantity and quality of encounters amongst northern foragers Charlotte Damm Open Access Download PDF	83
A large-scale view on ‘small-scale societies’ Andreas Maier, Isabell Schmidt and Andreas Zimmermann Open Access Download PDF	111
Socioecological factors influence hunter-gatherers Group size, lifetime interactions, and emergent properties of culture Brian F. Codding, Kasey Cole and Kurt M. Wilson Open Access Download PDF	131
Scale and Inuit social relations Ilagiit, parts of each other Elspeth Ready Open Access Download PDF	155
Mikea, Malagasy, or hunter-gatherers? Scale, ethnicity, and cultural groups in ethnographic description and ethnological analysis Bram Tucker Open Access Download PDF	179
Scaling an island of hunter-gatherers Writing the Mesolithic of Ireland Graeme Warren Open Access Download PDF	207
Authors’ biographies Open Access Download PDF	227

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Sociality; Cultural Complexity; Hunter-Gatherer Studies; Ethnic Groups; Culture; Social Relations; Science; Cultural Theory; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnology; Sociology of Science; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839460993