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Stop Seeing Like a State: Relational Complexity among Small-Scale Societies of Gulf Coastal Florida (Who Routinely Gathered in Large Numbers) (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ginessa Mahar. Kenneth Sassaman.

This is an abstract from the "Complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers of North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interventions of modern nation-states in the affairs of "underdeveloped" nations often fail for imposing standard categories on highly variable and historically situated local practices. The same might be said about scholarship on "complex" hunter-gatherers. Rather than oversimplifying by imposing order vis-à-vis state-level criteria...