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Material anthropology : contemporary approaches to material culture

Authors:Barrie Reynolds, Margaret A. Stott, University Press of America

Summary:A selection of papers presented at a symposium at the eleventh International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in 1982, summarizing what the participants view to be important directions for growth and development in material studies and highlighting exciting recent material culture research.

Print Book, English, ©1987

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher:University Press of America, Lanham, MD, ©1987

Series:

University Press of America

Genre:Aufsatzsammlung

Physical Description:ix, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9780819165435, 9780819165442, 0819165433, 0819165441

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:16277237

Subjects:

Artefacts - Anthropological perspectives

Aufsatzsammlung

Conference papers and proceedings

Culture matérielle Congrès

Material culture

Material culture Congresses

culture matérielle congrès

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Material anthropology.

Contents:

Material anthropology / Margaret A. Stott and Barrie Reynolds

Object, context and process / Margaret A. Stott

The determination of significance / James D. Nason

Flowcharts as an aid to the symmetry classification of patterned design / Donald W. Crowe and Dorothy K. Washburn

Clothing as language / Grant McCracken

What to do before the archaeologist arrives / Dolores Newton