Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: cultural responses to risk and uncertainty
- 2 The spirit of survival: cultural responses to resource variability in North Alaska
- 3 Saving it for later: storage by prehistoric hunter–gatherers in Europe
- 4 The role of wild resources in small-scale agricultural systems: tales from the Lakes and the Plains
- 5 The economy has a normal surplus: economic stability and social change among early farming communities of Thessaly, Greece
- 6 Changing responses to drought among the Wodaabe of Niger
- 7 Of grandfathers and grand theories: the hierarchised ordering of responses to hazard in a Greek rural community
- 8 Risk and the polis: the evolution of institutionalised responses to food supply problems in the ancient Greek state
- 9 Monitoring interannual variability: an example from the period of early state development in southwestern Iran
- 10 Public intervention in the food supply in pre-industrial Europe
- 11 Conclusion: bad year economics
- References
- Index
- ALSO IN THIS SERIES
List of tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: cultural responses to risk and uncertainty
- 2 The spirit of survival: cultural responses to resource variability in North Alaska
- 3 Saving it for later: storage by prehistoric hunter–gatherers in Europe
- 4 The role of wild resources in small-scale agricultural systems: tales from the Lakes and the Plains
- 5 The economy has a normal surplus: economic stability and social change among early farming communities of Thessaly, Greece
- 6 Changing responses to drought among the Wodaabe of Niger
- 7 Of grandfathers and grand theories: the hierarchised ordering of responses to hazard in a Greek rural community
- 8 Risk and the polis: the evolution of institutionalised responses to food supply problems in the ancient Greek state
- 9 Monitoring interannual variability: an example from the period of early state development in southwestern Iran
- 10 Public intervention in the food supply in pre-industrial Europe
- 11 Conclusion: bad year economics
- References
- Index
- ALSO IN THIS SERIES
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- Bad Year EconomicsCultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty, pp. viii - ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989