Contributions

  • Stark, Miriam T. - Contributor

Publication

1998 - Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, [D.C.], District of Columbia

Language

English

Word Count

90,500 words, Guess

Page Count

362 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL692966M
  • ISBN-101560987790
  • OCLC Control Number37653040
  • Library of Congress Control Number97040202
  • LibraryThing3797549
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  • Goodreads164331

Classifications

  • DDC930.1
  • LCCCC72.4 .A74 1998

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Smithsonian series in archaeological inquiry

Other Editions

  • The archaeology of social boundariesSmithsonian Institution Press1998-01-01

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