Title: Fleeting identities : perishable material culture in archaeological research /
Authors: Drooker, Penelope B.
Publisher: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Material culture Conservation and restoration Congresses.; Antiquities Collection and preservation Congresses; Archaeology Methodology Congresses
Contents: Material culture and perishability / Penelope Ballard Drooker -- Reflection on material culture and identity / Tom D. Dillehay -- Making the invisible visible : the hidden jewels of archaeology / Christine A. Hastorf -- Matter over mind : perishables and the glorification of materiality in archaeology / H. Martin Wobst -- Archaeology, material culture, and the complementary forms of social life / John Edward Terrell -- Human figures and the southeastern ancestor shrine / James A. Brown -- Material culture and the identification of prehistoric cultural groups / Jill Minar -- The material correlates of village ceremony : two ritual structures at the Cerén Site, El Salvador / Linda A. Brown and Payson Sheets -- Retrieving and conserving organic material from archaeological contexts / Judith A. Logan [and others] -- The trappings of kingship among the classic Maya : ritual and identity in a royal tomb from Copán / William L. Fash [and others] --^