The archaeology of social boundaries
By: edited by Miriam T. Stark.
Contributors: Stark, Miriam T.
Series: Smithsonian series in archaeological inquiry
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press; Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, [D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Social archaeology; Ethnoarchaeology; Material culture; Pottery, Prehistoric -- Analysis; Architecture, Prehistoric; Human territoriality
Description: "Fourteen contributors examine an array of media - from ceramics and personal ornaments to architecture and site structure - in small-scale societies and apply methods from both sides of the Atlantic to explore how technical choices made in the creation of everyday objects can both reflect and define social boundaries.

In chapters on prehistoric and historic societies that range from North America to Africa to Oceania, the authors suggest that variation in technical systems corresponds more closely than stylistic variation does to the boundaries between groups. They also address the question of whether modern concepts of ethnicity can be translated into archaeological terms."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-339) and index.