Ethnoarchaeology in action
By: Nicholas David, Carol Kramer.
Contributors: Kramer, Carol, 1943-
Series: Cambridge world archaeology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
Subjects: Ethnoarchaeology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-468) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Ethnoarchaeology: its nature, origins, and history; title: Why ethnoarchaeology?; title: The plan of this book; title: The birth and definition of ethnoarchaeology; title: A brief history of ethnoarchaeology; title: The attractions of ethnoarchaeology; title: Further reading; title: 2 Theorizing ethnoarchaeology and analogy; title: Explanation in social science; title: Processual and contextual schools and styles of; title: analysis; title: Analogy; title: Ethnoarchaeology and postprocessualism; title: Further reading; title: 3 Fieldwork and ethics; title: Types of ethnoarchaeological research; title: Assessment of field methods; title: Challenges; title: Professional ethics and the ethnoarchaeologist; title: Further reading; title: 4 Human residues: entering the archaeological context; title: Middle range theory from S to A; title: Deposits and sites; title: Cycling, curation, lifespan; title: Natural garbage and discarded meanings; title: Abandonment; title: Concluding remarks; title: Further reading; title: 5 Fauna and subsistence /; title: Fauna and their remains /; title: Subsistence; title: Conclusion: the importance of ethnography; title: Further reading; title: 6 Studying artifacts: functions, operating sequences,; title: taxonomy; title: Archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches; title: Identification of artifact functions; title: Techniques of manufacture; title: Taxonomy, emics and etics; title: A note on change; title: Further reading; title: 7 Style and the marking of boundaries: contrasting regional; title: studies; title: Style; title: Style at work; title: Conclusions; title: Further reading; title: 8 Settlement: systems and patterns; title: Settlement patterns and subsistence-settlement; title: systems; title: Hunters and gatherers; title: Pastoralists; title: Cultivators plus; title: Concluding contrasts, mobility and sedentism; title: Further reading; title: 9 Site structures and activities; title: Hunter-gatherer studies; title: Nomadic pastoralists; title: Mobile populations with domesticated animals; title: Cultivators; title: Engendered activities, engendered spaces?; title: Concluding remarks; title: Further reading; title: 10 Architecture; title: "Vernacular" architecture; title: Why the Willow Lake Dene build log cabins and tipis; title: Architecture in the Islamic world; title: Sukur: the chiefly production of space; title: Conclusions; title: Further reading; title: 11 Specialist craft production and apprenticeship; title: Specialist craft production; title: Organization of craft production; title: Learning and apprenticeship; title: Examples of craft specialization; title: The ethnoarchaeology of iron smelting in Africa; title: Blacksmiths and brasscasters; title: Concluding remarks; title: Further reading; title: 12 Trade and exchange; title: Exchange, trade, and distribution; title: Concluding remarks; title: Further reading; title: 13 Mortuary practices, status, ideology, and systems of; title: thought; title: Mortuary practices, status, and ideology; title: Ideology, domination, and resistance in other areas; title: Linking technologies, objects, and social representations; title: Conclusions; title: Further reading; title: 14 Conclusions: ethnoarchaeology in context; title: Ethnoarchaeology as contributor to archaeological; title: theory and practice; title: Career passages and the centrality of ethnoarchaeology; title: Lack of institutionalization, increasing maturity; title: The future; title: Reflexivity; title: Bibliography; title: Index.