Ethnoarchaeology in action /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001
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| Series: | Cambridge world archaeology
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Ethnoarchaeology: its nature, origins, and history
- Why ethnoarchaeology?
- The plan of this book
- The birth and definition of ethnoarchaeology
- A brief history of ethnoarchaeology
- The attractions of ethnoarchaeology
- Further reading
- 2 Theorizing ethnoarchaeology and analogy
- Explanation in social science
- Processual and contextual schools and styles of
- analysis
- Analogy
- Ethnoarchaeology and postprocessualism
- Further reading
- 3 Fieldwork and ethics
- Types of ethnoarchaeological research
- Assessment of field methods
- Challenges
- Professional ethics and the ethnoarchaeologist
- Further reading
- 4 Human residues: entering the archaeological context
- Middle range theory from S to A
- Deposits and sites
- Cycling, curation, lifespan
- Natural garbage and discarded meanings
- Abandonment
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 5 Fauna and subsistence /
- Fauna and their remains /
- Subsistence
- Conclusion: the importance of ethnography
- Further reading
- 6 Studying artifacts: functions, operating sequences,
- taxonomy
- Archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches
- Identification of artifact functions
- Techniques of manufacture
- Taxonomy, emics and etics
- A note on change
- Further reading
- 7 Style and the marking of boundaries: contrasting regional
- studies
- Style
- Style at work
- Conclusions
- Further reading
- 8 Settlement: systems and patterns
- Settlement patterns and subsistence-settlement
- systems
- Hunters and gatherers
- Pastoralists
- Cultivators plus
- Concluding contrasts, mobility and sedentism
- Further reading
- 9 Site structures and activities
- Hunter-gatherer studies
- Nomadic pastoralists
- Mobile populations with domesticated animals
- Cultivators
- Engendered activities, engendered spaces?
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 10 Architecture
- "Vernacular" architecture
- Why the Willow Lake Dene build log cabins and tipis
- Architecture in the Islamic world
- Sukur: the chiefly production of space
- Conclusions
- Further reading
- 11 Specialist craft production and apprenticeship
- Specialist craft production
- Organization of craft production
- Learning and apprenticeship
- Examples of craft specialization
- The ethnoarchaeology of iron smelting in Africa
- Blacksmiths and brasscasters
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 12 Trade and exchange
- Exchange, trade, and distribution
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 13 Mortuary practices, status, ideology, and systems of
- thought
- Mortuary practices, status, and ideology
- Ideology, domination, and resistance in other areas
- Linking technologies, objects, and social representations
- Conclusions
- Further reading
- 14 Conclusions: ethnoarchaeology in context
- Ethnoarchaeology as contributor to archaeological
- theory and practice
- Career passages and the centrality of ethnoarchaeology
- Lack of institutionalization, increasing maturity
- The future
- Reflexivity
- Bibliography
- Index