Recurrence of Bear Restoration Symbolism:

By combining ethnographic and evolutionary psychological approaches, this paper compares adaptive strategies of two groups of hunter-gatherers colonizing marginal environments, one in Southern Siberia (Minusinsk Basin) and the other in North America (Great Basin and Colorado Plateau). Th e biologica...

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Main Authors: Minusinsk Basin Evenki, Basin-plateau Ute, Lynda D. Mcneil
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Evenki (Southern Siberia
recurrence of symbolic representations
spring revival rites
Ute Indian (North America
Evenki
Indian
Siberia
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.529.3755
http://spot.colorado.edu/~lmcneil/JOCC_008_01-02_05-McNeil.pdf
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Summary:By combining ethnographic and evolutionary psychological approaches, this paper compares adaptive strategies of two groups of hunter-gatherers colonizing marginal environments, one in Southern Siberia (Minusinsk Basin) and the other in North America (Great Basin and Colorado Plateau). Th e biological and cultural survival of Southern Siberian (Evenki) and Basin-Plateau (Numic) hunter-gatherers depended upon developing a complex of social and symbolic strategies, including ritual, oral narratives and rock art. Th ese symbolic representations, which emerged in response to reproductive and somatic demands, appear to have been preserved and transmitted inter-generationally, and to have recurred cross-culturally above chance.

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