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The Game of Choice: Patterns of Indian and Colonist Hunting in the Neotropics
Author(s) -
Redford Kent H.,
Robinson John G.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1987.89.3.02a00070
Subject(s) - citation , latin americans , center (category theory) , library science , range (aeronautics) , humanities , history , art , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , engineering , chemistry , crystallography , aerospace engineering
Anthropologists have collected data on hunting by humans to test a number of different hypotheses, including that of protein limitation (Gross 1975), the ideas on taboos advanced by Ross (1978), the efficiency of different weapons (e.g., Hames 1979), and optimal foraging by humans (e.g., Hawkes et al. 1982). These data reveal the astonishing range of game species taken by Neotropical human hunters.