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- catalog abstract ""This study is the first attempt in India to tackle the archaeology of shifting cultivation. It takes an ethnohistoric path to examine the changes wrought upon the shifting cultivation system of the Paharias of Santhal Parganas to explain its presently observable dynamics. The goal of the study is to extract from this ethnohistory a model for predicting the archaeological material of the Rajmahal Hills." "A survey strategy was designed based on the intensive study of the Paharia settlements, resource use, and technology, after studying the present settlement patterns." "This book will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, agricultural scientists, administrators, and policy planners."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11985738.
- catalog coverage "India, Northeastern Antiquities.".
- catalog coverage "Santhāl Pargana (India) Social conditions.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This study is the first attempt in India to tackle the archaeology of shifting cultivation. It takes an ethnohistoric path to examine the changes wrought upon the shifting cultivation system of the Paharias of Santhal Parganas to explain its presently observable dynamics. The goal of the study is to extract from this ethnohistory a model for predicting the archaeological material of the Rajmahal Hills." "A survey strategy was designed based on the intensive study of the Paharia settlements, resource use, and technology, after studying the present settlement patterns." "This book will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, agricultural scientists, administrators, and policy planners."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: The Aims, Field Area, and the People -- 2. The Problem and the Method -- 3. The Paharia up to c. 1800: The Transition from the Pre-colonial to the Colonial Period -- 4. Paharia from the Colonial to the Early Post-colonial period -- 5. The Paharia in the Post-colonial Period -- 6. Predicting Shifting Cultivator Settlement and Technology: A Preliminary Model -- 7. Predictions and the Data: A Comparison -- 8. Conclusion -- App. 1. Comparative data on population trends -- App. 2. (I-VIII). Archaeological data and artefact definitions -- App. 3. Artefact Definitions and Key to Plates.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 157 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Hoe and the axe.".
- catalog identifier "0195651707".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hoe and the axe.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in social ecology and environmental history".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Delhi ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Hoe and the axe.".
- catalog spatial "India Santhāl Pargana.".
- catalog spatial "India".
- catalog spatial "India, Northeastern Antiquities.".
- catalog spatial "India, Northeastern".
- catalog spatial "Santhāl Pargana (India) Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "954 21".
- catalog subject "Ethnohistory India Santhāl Pargana.".
- catalog subject "Land settlement patterns India, Northeastern History.".
- catalog subject "Paharia (South Asian people) History.".
- catalog subject "S602.87 .P73 2000".
- catalog subject "Shifting cultivation India History.".
- catalog subject "Shifting cultivation India Santhāl Pargana.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: The Aims, Field Area, and the People -- 2. The Problem and the Method -- 3. The Paharia up to c. 1800: The Transition from the Pre-colonial to the Colonial Period -- 4. Paharia from the Colonial to the Early Post-colonial period -- 5. The Paharia in the Post-colonial Period -- 6. Predicting Shifting Cultivator Settlement and Technology: A Preliminary Model -- 7. Predictions and the Data: A Comparison -- 8. Conclusion -- App. 1. Comparative data on population trends -- App. 2. (I-VIII). Archaeological data and artefact definitions -- App. 3. Artefact Definitions and Key to Plates.".
- catalog title "The hoe and the axe : an ethnohistory of shifting cultivation in Eastern India / Ajay Pratap.".
- catalog type "text".