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Structured worlds : the archaeology of hunter-gatherer thought and action / edited by Aubrey Cannon.
Penn Museum Library GN388 .S78 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Approaches to anthropological archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hunting and gathering societies--Congresses.
- Hunting and gathering societies.
- Prehistoric peoples--Psychology--Congresses.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Cognition and culture--Congresses.
- Cognition and culture.
- Ethnoarchaeology--Congresses.
- Ethnoarchaeology.
- Prehistoric peoples--Psychology.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 212 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2011.
- Summary:
- Cannon (anthropology, McMaster U., Canada) is editor of this volume and also a contributor. He provides introductory and concluding essays and, as his main area of research includes the hunter-fisher-gatherer cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, his contributed piece is on cosmology and everyday perception in Northwest Coast production, reproduction, and settlement. The remaining nine contributions address various aspects of landscape and material culture in connection with prehistoric peoples of the Scandinavian peninsula, Britain, northern Europe, and Japan, among other places. The volume is distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction / Aubrey Cannon
- Material culture perspectives on the worldview of northern hunter-gatherers / Peter Jordan
- Humans, material culture and landscape: outline to an understanding of developments in worldviews on the Scandinavian peninsula, ca. 10,000-4500 BP / Ingrid Fuglestvedt
- Cosmology and everyday perception in Northwest coast production, reproduction, and settlement / Aubrey Cannon
- The structured world of the Niitsitapi: the landscape as historical archive among hunter-gatherers of the northern plains / Gerald A. Oetelaar and D. Joy Oetelaar
- Landscape learning and lithic technology: seasonal mobility, enculturation and tool apprenticeship among the early Palaeo-Eskimos / S. Brooke Milne
- Making space in the late Mesolithic of Britain / Lesley McFayden
- Why does difference matter? The creation of personhood and the categorisation of food among prehistoric fisher-gatherer-hunters of Northern Europe / Liliana Janik
- Using worldwide samples in understanding the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Northern Europe / Helene Knutsson
- Figurines, circular settlements and Jomon worldviews / Naoko Matsumoto
- The involution of complexity in Jomon Japan / Simon Kaner
- Conclusion / Aubrey Cannon.
- Notes:
- Chiefly papers from a session organized for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Montreal, Canada in 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781845530808
- 1845530802
- OCLC:
- 383823125
- Publisher Number:
- 99934838206
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