David R Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 133115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 121 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1036 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 121 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Origins And Spread Of Agriculture And Pastoralism In Eurasia: Crops, Fields, Flocks And Herds
Introduction, David Harris. Part 1 Thematic perspectives: growing plants and raising animals - an anthropological perspective on domestication, Tim Ingold ecology, evolutionary theory and agricultural origins, Mark Blumler the spread of agriculture and nomadic pastoralism - insights from genetics, linguistics and archaeology, Luca Cavalli-Sforza language families and the spread of farming, Colin Renfrew tracking early crops and early farmers - th…
The beginnings of agriculture in western Central Asia
Since the Second World War, study of the origins and early development of agriculture on a world scale has been dominated by the concept of primary or “nuclear” centres where, it has been assumed, hunter-gatherers initiated crop cultivation and animal breeding and from where agriculture and pastoralism later spread to secondary or “non” centres (cf. Harris in Ch. 1 in this volume). The fundamental question of how far this core-periphery model of …
Domesticatory Relationships of People, Plants and Animals
Most early-nineteenth century thinkers concerned with man&s;s relationship to nature continued to accept the dichotomy, but there were exceptions. It resembles quite closely the essentially descriptive model of an evolutionary continuum of people-plant interaction which the author proposed - independently of Ford&s;s model - and which was published first in 1989 and in a revised form in 1990. The general analytical distinction between domesticate…
Zeuner, Frederick Everard
An evolutionary continuum of people–plant interaction
This chapter presents a classificatory model which arranges them along a continuum of people-plant interaction, against the background of a review of earlier uses of such concepts. The intellectual assumptions that underlie the model presented here are ecological and evolutionary: ecological in that the analytical target is interaction between people and plants, evolutionary in that the results of the processes involved in domestication and the e…
Agriculture: Definition and Overview
Agricultural systems, ecosystems and the origins of agriculture
The methodological merit of the ecological approach is that it provides a framework for the analysis of agricultural systems by focusing attention on the properties they share with all other systems that is structure, function, equilibrium and change. It is both valid and illuminating to extend this method of analyzing natural ecosystems to the interpretation of agricultural systems. From the comparison between natural ecosystems and agricultural…
Foraging and Farming
From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure: The Effects of Gramscianism on Cultural Studies
This book examines the rise of cultural studies and evaluates its strengths and weaknesses. The author raises searching questions about the originality of cultural studies and its political motivation. Written with zest and a judicious sense of purpose it is a landmark work in cultural studies media and the sociology of culture.
Academic staff and honorary members of the Institute in 2003-2004
The Institute's primary research groups
The coordinators of each of the Institute's five primary research groups report on their group's activities during the 2004/2005 academic year
The fourth issue of Archaeology International
The main aim of Archaeology International (AI), since its launch in 1997/98, has been to disseminate information about the Institute's diverse research activities worldwide, by publishing short articles that can readily be understood- and I hope enjoyed- by our archaeological and non-archaeological readers alike
The Institute’s primary research groups in 2002-2003
The coordinators of each of the Institute’s five primary research groups report on their group’s activities during the 2002/2003 academic year
The Institute’s Primary Research Groups in 2003-2004
primary research groups Th e coordin ators of each of the In stitute's fi ve prim ary research groups rep ort on their group's activities during the 2003/2004 academic year
The eighth issue of Archaeology International
When introducing the first issue of Archaeology International eight years ago, I described it as a new venture for the Institute of Archaeology. Its novelty lay in the attempt to convey each year, to potential readers around the world, an impression of the scope of the research being undertaken by Institute staff and postgraduates. The main aim was to publish annually a mixture of short, clearly written and visually attractive articles that refle…
The third issue of Archaeology International
With the appearance of this issue, I like to think that Archaeology International (AI) has established itself as the main means by which we convey each year to the world at large, in nontechnical language, an impression of the range of research being carried out by staff and students of the Institute of Archaeology
Staff and Students of the Institute in 2003-2004
The Institute's primary Research Groups
In the 1997/98 issue of AI, the Director explained how the Institute's research groups were set up. Here the respective coordinators report on the activities of the four primary Groups
Staff and Students of the Institute in 2001-2002
Staff and Students of the Institute in 1999-2000
Staff and Students of the Institute in 2000-2001
The seventh issue of Archaeology International
Since AI was launched seven years ago, its aims and format have not changed, but each year the task of choosing a representative selection of a dozen or so articles from the plethora of possible topics becomes more challenging. This year I have again chosen a mix of themes, regions and periods that I hope does justice to the great range of research being undertaken by members of the Institute
The Institute's Primary Research Groups in 2001-2002
The coordinators of each of the Institute's four primary Research Groups report on their group's activities during the 2001-2002 academic year
Introducing Archaeology International
Archaeology International (AI) is a new venture for the Institute of Archaeology. Since its foundation in the 1 930s the Institute has publicized its academic activities. From 1944 to 1985 it did so regularly in formal Annual Reports to the Senate of the University of London, and in 1958 its annual Bulletin was started, devoted mainly to publishing research papers and reviews, particularly by staff and students of the Institute. In 1977 a series …
The Institute's Primary Research Groups in 1999-2000
The coordinators of each of the Institute's four primary Research Groups report on their group's activities during the 1999/2000 academic year
Who is Multiracial? Assessing the Complexity of Lived Race
Patterns of racial classification in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health are examined. The survey's large sample size and multiple indicators of race permit generalizable claims about patterns and processes of social construction in the racial categorization of adolescents. About 12 percent of youth provide inconsistent responses to nearly identical questions about race, context affects one's choice of a single-race identity, and…
Foraging and Farming
Property Values Drop When Blacks Move in, Because: Racial and Socioeconomic Determinants of Neighborhood Desirability
Are housing prices lower in neighborhoods with high concentrations of black residents. If so, is this relationship evidence of pure discrimination, or can it be explained by considering nonracial neighborhood traits? These questions derive their importance from the link between mobility patterns and residential segregation, and the consequent relationship between high levels of segregation and a host of deleterious outcomes. I assess the magnitud…
Why Are Whites and Blacks Averse to Black Neighbors
How many interracial marriages would there be if all groups were of equal size in all places? A new look at national estimates of interracial marriage
The Ecology of Swidden Cultivation in the Upper Orinoco Rain Forest, Venezuela
SHIFTING cultivation has long been recognized as the most widespread agricultural system of the tropics, but only in the last two decades has it begun to receive close scrutiny from workers in both the social and the natural sciences. Systematic study of shifting cultivation was pioneered by Harold C. Conklin,I and he was chiefly responsible for establishing in general anthropological usage the term to distinguish shifting-field cultivation in th…
An Evolutionary Approach to the Southeast Asian Cultural Sequence [and Comments and Reply]
Recent archaelogical work has directed attention toward Southeast Asia. However, while the substantive results of this research are significant for tracing worldwide prehistoric developments, the integration of these findings into a regional archaeological framework continues to be a problem. Most traditional chronological-developmental frameworks of Southeast Asian prehistory were patterned after the European paradigm of five prehistoric ages. I…
The History of Jamaica, or General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of That Island
The underneath of Things: Violence, History and the Everyday in Sierra Leone
Mariane C. Ferme, The Underneath of Things: violence, history and the everyday in Sierra Leone.Berkeley CA: University of California Press. 2001, 228 pp., £40.00 (US24.00), ISBN 0 520 22543 0 paperback - Volume 72 Issue 2
Plants and the Migrations of Pacific Peoples
Plants, Animals, and Man in the Outer Leeward Islands, West Indies: An Ecological Study of Antigua, Barbuda and Anguilla
Early agriculture in New Guinea and the Torres Strait divide
The high and low islands of Torres Strait, scattered between the tip of Queensland and the coast of Papua New Guinea, make a unique frontier in later world prehistory: between a continent of hunter-gatherers and the majority world of cultivators. Consideration of just what archaeology there is in the Torres Strait Islands, and of its date, improve on the conventional question: was the Strait a bridge or a barrier
Hunters, gatherers and first farmers beyond Europe
The interplay of ethnographic and archaeological knowledge in the study of past human subsistence in the tropics
Much of what is currently known or believed about how humans procured and produced food in the past stems from ethnographic and historical evidence of the subsistence practices of foragers and farmers. It is often difficult or impossible to relate archaeological evidence directly to the ethnohistorical record, although these two very different sources of data potentially complement each other. The potential of such complementarity is now being en…
Pathways to World Prehistory Presidential Address 1994
Several previous Presidents, most notably Professor Sir Grahame Clark, have stressed in their presidential addresses the worldwide scope of our subject; but so far only one, my distinguished predecessor, Thurstan Shaw, has chosen to speak mainly about the prehistory of a non-European part of the world, in his case Africa (Shaw 1990). My aim today is to develop this theme by exploring three pathways to world prehistory: first, the pathway followed…
Kokkinopilos: A Greek Badland
The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe: Contemporary Perspectives
Recent Plant Invasions in the Arid and Semi-Arid Southwest of the United States
Several plant communities in the Southwest have been drastically altered within a century by the rapid spread of a small number of woody species. The habitats principally affected have been the plateaus and plains at intermediate elevations, which formerly supported grassland and have now been invaded on a massive scale by mesquite and other native shrubs, and the stream courses, which have been extensively occupied by tamarisk, an alien species …
Parmana. Prehistoric maize and manioc subsistence along the Amazon and Orinoco
Early European agriculture: Its foundations and development
Last Hunters-First Farmers: New Perspectives on the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture
During virtually the entire four-million-year history of our habitation on this planet, humans have been hunters and gatherers, dependent for nourishment on the availability of wild plants and animals. Beginning about 10,000 years ago, however, the most remarkable phenomenon in the course of human prehistory was set in motion. At locations around the world, over a period of about 5000 years, hunters became farmers. The implications of this revolu…
Continuities and Change in Tropical Savanna Environments
Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia: An Environmental-Archaeological Study
The Farther Reaches of Human Time: Retrospect on Carl Sauer as Prehistorian
Settlement and economy in the third and second millennia B.C
Bulgarische Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Ivan Sakazov , Otto Muller-Neudorf
The Decca Book of Opera
Plants and the Migrations of Pacific Peoples
Windward of the Caribbean
Recent Plant Invasions in the Arid and Semi-Arid Southwest of the United States
Several plant communities in the Southwest have been drastically altered within a century by the rapid spread of a small number of woody species. The habitats principally affected have been the plateaus and plains at intermediate elevations, which formerly supported grassland and have now been invaded on a massive scale by mesquite and other native shrubs, and the stream courses, which have been extensively occupied by tamarisk, an alien species …
Plants, Animals, and Man in the Outer Leeward Islands, West Indies: An Ecological Study of Antigua, Barbuda and Anguilla
New Light on Plant Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture: A Review
T HE problem of how, where, and when agriculture originated offers an intellectual challenge to all scholars concerned with the evolution of culture and the history of man's relationship to the land. Few geographers or anthropologists can have failed to have their curiosity aroused at some time regarding the circumstances in which man took this decisive step. But progress in our understanding of the problem is hindered by the baffling diversity o…
Kokkinopilos: A Greek Badland
The Caribbean Islands
Conservation and Caribbean Regional Progress
Failure to Alter Skin Inflammation by Hypnotic Suggestion in Five Subjects with Normal Skin Reactivity
Attempts to alter skin reactivity to mumps antigen, trypsin or histamine by direct hypnotic suggestion were unsuccessful despite the use of well trained hypnotic subjects. Failure to replicate earlier positive findings may be due to the use of subjects with normal, as opposed to labile, skin reactivity
Atlas du Maroc. Section X-Géographie économique: 39-Agriculture, Planche 39a: Cultures céréalières
The Enduring Navaho
Further comments: Misuse of analysis of covariance
The History of Jamaica, or General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of That Island
The Ecology of Swidden Cultivation in the Upper Orinoco Rain Forest, Venezuela
SHIFTING cultivation has long been recognized as the most widespread agricultural system of the tropics, but only in the last two decades has it begun to receive close scrutiny from workers in both the social and the natural sciences. Systematic study of shifting cultivation was pioneered by Harold C. Conklin,I and he was chiefly responsible for establishing in general anthropological usage the term to distinguish shifting-field cultivation in th…
Effects of Different Modes of Feedback on the Acquisition and Retention of Psychomotor Skills
An optimum feedback strategy is established for the acquisition and retention of psychomotor skills. A hierarchy of the effectiveness of 18 different feedbacks is established by utilizing 180 male college students divided randomly into 18 groups. The task consists of depressing a bar with a stylus (with a force of 1.3 to 1.7 lb.). The results indicate that: (1) Gradual reduction in feedback is superior to an abrupt halt to feedback for the retent…
Kaiser's Little Jiffy, Mark Iv for a Small Computer Using Basic Fortran IV
Indscal for a Small Computer Using Basic Fortran IV
The Brandt Affair and the SPD: Depersonalizing History
Patterns of Indian Burning in California: Ecology and Ethnohistory . Henry T. Lewis
An Evolutionary Approach to the Southeast Asian Cultural Sequence [and Comments and Reply]
Recent archaelogical work has directed attention toward Southeast Asia. However, while the substantive results of this research are significant for tracing worldwide prehistoric developments, the integration of these findings into a regional archaeological framework continues to be a problem. Most traditional chronological-developmental frameworks of Southeast Asian prehistory were patterned after the European paradigm of five prehistoric ages. I…
Socio-economic archaeology and the Cambridge connection
A review article on Problems in Economic and Social Archaeology (eds) G. de G. Sieveking, I. H. Longworth and K. E. Wilson. London: Duckworth. 626 pages. £24.00. 1976. Notes It is not the usual policy of World Archaeology to review books, but the publication in December 1976 of this book, massive, and global in its scope, seemed an appropriate occasion for a review article. In order to achieve a certain distance, the editor invited someone who is…
World prehistory in new perspective
The Yanoama Indians: A cultural geography
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