Cultural transmission and material culture
Subtitle: breaking down boundaries
By: edited by Miriam T. Stark, Brenda J. Bowser, and Lee Horne ; with a foreword by William A. Longacre.
Contributors: Stark, Miriam T.; Bowser, Brenda J., 1957-; Horne, Lee.; Kramer, Carol, 1943-2002.; American Anthropological Association. Meeting
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780816526758
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Congresses; Indigenous women -- Congresses; Material culture -- Congresses; Intercultural communication -- Congresses; Ceramics -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "How and why people develop, maintain, and change cultural boundaries through time are central issues in the social and behavioral sciences in general and anthropological archaeology in particular. What factors influence people to imitate or deviate from the behaviors of other group members? How are social group boundaries produced, perpetuated, and altered by the cumulative outcome of these decisions? Answering these questions is fundamental to understanding cultural persistence and change. The chapters included in this stimulating, multifaceted book address these questions." --
Notes: Papers originally presented at the 102nd meeting for the American Anthropological Association, in a session entitled "Breaking Down Boundaries: Anthropological Approaches to Cultural Transmission and Material Culture, in Honor of Carol Kramer".

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why breaking down boundaries matters for archaeological research on learning and cultural transmission : an introduction / Miriam T. Stark, Brenda J. Bowser, and Lee Horne; title: Patterns, processes, and parsimony : studying cultural evolution with analytical techniques from evolutionary biology / Mark Collard and Stephen J. Shennan; title: Gendered technology, kinship, and cultural transmission among Salish-speaking communities on the Pacific Northwest coast : a preliminary investigation / Peter Jordan and Thomas Mace; title: Cultural transmission of copying errors and the evolution of variation in woodland pots / Jelmer W. Eerkens and Carl P. Lipo; title: Evolutionary trajectories of technological traits and cultural transmission : a qualitative approach to the emergence and disappearance of the ceramic wheel-fashioning technique in the southern Levant / Valentine Roux; title: Learning and transmission of pottery style : women's life histories and communities of practice in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Brenda J. Bowser and John Q. Patton; title: Translating ideologies : tangible meaning and spatial politics in the northwest Amazon of Brazil / Janet Chernela; title: Mother bella was not a bella : inherited and transformed traditions in southwestern Niger / Olivier P. Gosselain; title: The way of the potter's mother : apprenticeship strategies among Dii potters from Cameroon, West Africa / Hélène Wallaert-Pêtre; title: Technical traditions and cultural identity : an ethnoarchaeological study of Andhra Pradesh potters / Laure Degoy-Thotakura; title: The long arm of the mother-in-law : learning, postmarital resocialization of women, and material culture style / Ingrid Herbich and Michael Dietler; title: Colonialism and cuisine : cultural transmission, agency, and history at Zuni Pueblo / Barbara J. Mills.