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Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology / edited by William A. Longacre.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Longacre, William A., Editor.
- Series:
- University of Arizona Press Century Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pottery--Analysis.
- Ethnoarchaeology.
- Ethnoarchaeology--Congresses.
- Pottery--Analysis--Congresses.
- Pottery.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps ;
- Edition:
- Century Collection edition
- Place of Publication:
- University of Arizona Press 2022
- Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ethnoarchaeology, the study of material culture in a living society by archaeologists, facilitates the extraction of information from prehistoric materials as well. Studies of contemporary pottery-making were initiated in the southwestern United States toward the end of the nineteenth century, then abandoned as a result of changes in archaeological theory. Now a resurgence in ethnoarchaeology over the past twenty-five years offers a new set of directions for the discipline. This volume presents the results of such work with pottery, a class of materials that occurs abundantly in many archaeological sites. Drawing on projects undertaken around the world, in the Philippines, East Africa, Mesoamerica, India, in both traditional and complex societies, the contributors focus on identifying social and behavioral sources of ceramic variation to show how analogical reasoning is fundamental to archaeological interpretation. As the number of pottery-making societies declines, opportunities for such research must be seized. By bringing together a variety of ceramic ethnoarchaeological analyses, this volume offers the profession a much-needed touchstone on method and theory for the study of pottery-making among living peoples.
- Contents:
- Variation, variability, and explanation in pottery studies / S.E. van der Leeuw
- Sources of ceramic variability at Zuni Pueblo / Margaret Ann Hardin
- The decoration of containers : an ethnographic and historical study / Ian Hodder
- Sources of ceramic variability among the Kalinga of northern Luzon / William A. Longacre
- Pottery production and distribution among the Kalinga : a study of household and regional organization and differentiation / Michael W. Graves
- The decorative burden : design, medium, and change / Warren R. DeBoer
- Ceramic frequency and use-life : a highland Mayan case in cross-cultural perspective / Ben A. Nelson
- Standardization and variation in the work of craft specialists / Gloria Anne London
- Ceramics in two Indian cities / Carol Kramer
- The archaeological purpose of ethnoarchaeology / Raymond H. Thompson.
- Notes:
- Outgrowth of a seminar sponsored by the School of American Research, held March 24-30, 1985.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8165-4877-3
- OCLC:
- 1327831893
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