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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Archaeology of social boundaries. Washington, [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1998 (OCoLC)606998750 |
| Material Type: | Government publication, National government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Miriam T Stark |
| ISBN: | 1560987790 9781560987796 9781935623786 1935623788 |
| OCLC Number: | 37653040 |
| Description: | xx, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Technical choices and social boundaries in material culture patterning: an introduction / Miriam T. Stark -- Social boundaries, technical systems, and the use of space and technology in the Kalahari / Robert K. Hitchcock and Laurence E. Bartram, Jr. -- Material culture, social fields, and social boundaries on the Sepik coast of New Guinea / Robert L. Welsch and John Edward Terrell -- Social and technical identity in a clay crystal ball / Olivier P. Gosselain -- Scale, style, and cultural variation: technological traditions in the northern Mandara Mountains / Scott MacEachern -- The cultural origins of technical choice: unraveling Algonquian and Iroquoian ceramic traditions in the Northeast / Elizabeth S. Chilton -- Technological patterning and social boundaries: ceramic variability in southern New England, A.D. 1000-1675 / Robert G. Goodby -- Coursed adobe architecture, style, and social boundaries in the American Southwest / Catherine Cameron -- Social boundaries and technical choices in Tonto Basin prehistory / Miriam T. Stark, Mark D. Elson, and Jeffery J. Clark -- Habitus, techniques, style: an integrated approach to the social understanding of material culture and boundaries / Michael Dietler and Ingrid Herbich -- Technology, style, and social practices: archaeological approaches / Michelle Hegmon. |
| Series Title: | Smithsonian series in archaeological inquiry. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Miriam T. Stark. |
Abstract:
Demonstrates that the search for social boundaries in material culture patterning can benefit from the study of both technological and stylistic qualities. This book examines an array of media in small-scale societies and applies methods from both sides of the Atlantic to explore how technical choices can both reflect and define social boundaries.
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