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This edited volume explores the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and animal masters across various cultures and its environmental impacts. It documents the historical and geographical prevalence of these beliefs, which suggest that supernatural entities grant hunting success to adherents of specific rituals. The book includes case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, examining the multifaceted nature of these beliefs and their influence on material culture, conservation, and biodiversity. It also considers the consequences of these beliefs on game harvests and natural resource management. Intended for an academic audience, the book offers insights from anthropology, sociology, political science, and environmental perspectives.

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- General ecology and biosociology --- Archeology --- biodiversiteit --- etnologie --- archeologie --- Supernatural. --- Hunting. --- Supernatural --- Hunting

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"New data and interpretations that shed light on the nature of power relations in prehistoric and contemporary Indigenous societies This volume explores the nature of power relations and social control in Indigenous societies of Latin America. Its chapters focus on instances of domination in different contexts as reflected in archaeological, osteological, and ethnohistorical records, beginning with prehistoric case studies to examples from the ethnographic present. Ranging from the development of nautical and lacustrine warfare technology in pre-contact Mesoamerica to the psychological functions of domestic violence among contemporary Amazonian peoples, these investigations shed light on how leaders often use violence or the threat of violence to advance their influence. The essays show that while social control can be overt, it may also be veiled in the form of monumental architecture, fortresses or pukara, or rituals that signal to friends and foes alike the power of those in control. Contributors challenge many widely accepted conceptions of violence, warfare, and domination by presenting new evidence, and they also offer novel interpretations of power relations at the domestic, local, and regional spheres. Encompassing societies from tribal to state levels of sociopolitical complexity, the studies in this volume present different dimensions of conflict and power found among the prehistoric and contemporary Indigenous peoples of Latin America"-- "This volume explores the nature of power relations and social control in Indigenous societies of Latin America as reflected in archaeological, osteological, and ethnohistorical records"--

Social control --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnology --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society --- History. --- Social aspects --- Politics and government --- Latin America --- Social policy

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The Amerindian (American Indian or Native American – reference to both North and South America) practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies has long intrigued both the research community as well as the public. As a subject that is both controversial and politically charged, it has also come under attack as a European colonists’ perspective intended to denigrate native peoples. What this collection demonstrates is that the practice of trophy-taking predates European contact in the Americas but was also practiced in other parts of the world (Europe, Africa, Asia) and has been practiced prehistorically, historically and up to and including the twentieth century. This edited volume mainly focuses on this practice in both North and South America. The editors and contributors (which include Native Peoples from both continents) examine the evidence and causes of Amerindian trophy taking as reflected in osteological, archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic accounts. Additionally, they present objectively and discuss dispassionately the topic of human proclivity toward ritual violence.

Indians --- Scalping. --- Military trophies --- Indiens --- Scalp --- Trophées militaires --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Religion --- Warfare. --- Antiquities --- Guerre --- Antiquités --- Indians -- Warfare. --- Military trophies -- America. --- Scalping --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Archaeology --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- History & Archaeology --- Social Sciences --- Warfare --- Trophées militaires --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Antiquités --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVSOCIA SPRINGER-B --- Indian warfare --- Warfare, Indian --- Tropaeum --- Tropaion --- Trophies, Military --- Military capacity and organization --- Social sciences. --- Religion. --- Culture --- Anthropology. --- Archaeology. --- Social Sciences. --- Religious Studies, general. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Manners and customs --- Flaying (Torture) --- War memorials --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Human beings --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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Trade before Civilization explores the role that long-distance exchange played in the establishment and/or maintenance of social complexity, and its role in the transformation of societies from egalitarian to non-egalitarian. Bringing together research by an international and methodologically diverse team of scholars, it analyses the relationship between long-distance trade and the rise of inequality. The volume illustrates how elites used exotic prestige goods to enhance and maintain their elevated social positions in society. Global in scope, it offers case studies of early societies and sites in Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America, and Mesoamerica. Deploying a range of inter-disciplinary and cutting-edge theoretical approaches from a cross-cultural framework, the volume offers new insights and enhances our understanding of socio-political evolution. It will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, conflict theorists, and ethnohistorians, as well as economists seeking to understand the nexus between imported luxury items and cultural evolution.

Commerce, Prehistoric --- Economics, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric peoples --- Social history --- Social evolution. --- Social interaction. --- Social archaeology. --- Social aspects. --- Sociological aspects. --- Social life and customs. --- Social networks. --- Archaeology --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Evolution --- Social change --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Primitive societies --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Economic prehistory --- Palaeoeconomics --- Palaeoeconomy --- Paleoeconomics --- Paleoeconomy --- Prehistoric economics --- Economic anthropology --- Exchange, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric commerce --- Methodology --- Social evolution --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Histoire sociale --- Évolution sociale. --- Archéologie sociale. --- Commerce préhistorique --- Économie préhistorique --- Cultural Evolution. --- Société. --- Sociologie.

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Archeology --- culturele antropologie --- archeologie