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SFB 806 E3: Anthropological Models: A Reconstruction of the First African Frontier
Project
Project code: DFG SFB 806
Contract period: 01.01.2009
- 31.12.2009
Purpose of research: Demonstration
This project explores anthropological models of hunter-gatherer social dynamics and seeks to relate these models to the theoretical idea of a frontier, which means explaining forms of social organisation as the outcome of a condition of gradual expansion, and conversely this expansion as the result of specific social dynamics. Existing anthropological models for the reconstruction of hunter-gatherer migrations and expansions are synthesised and critically assessed on the basis of (a) new data collected in an ethnographic field research study, (b) cross-cultural comparisons and (c) a simulation component.
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Subjects
- Agricultural Sociology
- Rural history
