Cultural transmission and material culture : breaking down boundaries

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Cultural transmission and material culture : breaking down boundaries

edited by Miriam T. Stark, Brenda J. Bowser, and Lee Horne ; with a foreword by William A. Longacre

University of Arizona Press, c2008

  • : hbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-302) and index

収録内容

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

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内容説明

How and why people develop, maintain, and change cultural boundaries through time are central issues in the social and behavioral sciences in generaland 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 outcomeof these decisions? Answering these questions is fundamental to understanding cultural persistence and change. The chapters included in this stimulating, multifaceted book address these questions. Working in several subdisciplines, contributors report on research in the areas of cultural boundaries, cultural transmission, and the socially organized nature of learning. Boundaries are found not only within and between the societies in these studies but also within and between the communities of scholars who study them. To break down these boundaries, this volume includes scholars who use multiple theoretical perspectives, including practice theory and evolutionary traditions, which are sometimes complementary and occasionally clashing. Geographic coverage ranges from the indigenous Americas to Africa, the Near East, and South Asia, and the time frame extends from the prehistoric or precontact to colonial periods and up to the ethnographic present. Contributors include leading scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe. Together, they employ archaeological, ethnographic, ethnoarchaeological,experimental, and simulation data to link micro-scale processes of cultural transmission to macro-scale processes of social group boundary formation, continuity, and change.

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