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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Widlok, Thomas
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Cruz, M. Dores
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript, 2022.
Series:Edition Kulturwissenschaft.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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