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Ethnoarchaeology first developed as the study of ethnographic material culture from archaeological perspectives. Over the past half century it has expanded its scope, especially to cultural and social anthropology. Both authors are leading practitioners, and their theoretical perspective embraces both the processualism of the New Archaeology and the post-processualism of the 1980s and 90s. A case-study approach enables a balanced global geographic and topical coverage, including consideration of materials in French and German. Three introductory chapters discuss the subject and its history, survey the theory, and discuss field methods and ethics. Ten topical chapters consider formation processes, subsistence, the study of artefacts and style, settlement systems, site structure and architecture, specialist craft production, trade and exchange, and mortuary practices and ideology. Ethnoarchaeology in Action concludes with ethnoarchaeology's contributions actual and potential, and with a look at its place within anthropology. It is generously illustrated, including many photographs of leading ethnoarchaeologists in action.
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About the Author David is Professor and Head of Archaeology at the University of Calgary in Alberta.The park's colorful history springs to life in these pages by writer Carol A. Kramer and the nonprofit Calaveras Big Trees Association. Images from the archives of Calaveras Big Trees State Park, the Calaveras County Archives, the Old Timer's Museum, the Calaveras County Historical Society, and the Society of California Pioneers showcase the rich history of this treasure of California's state park system.Norman Yoffee is author of Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Professor Emeritus, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology, University of Michigan; Senior Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. He has taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Oxford, and the Free University of Berlin. He is the author or editor of 13 books, over 100 articles and reviews, and more than 200 invited lectures in 33 US universities and in 22 foreign countries. He holds an honorary degree (Doctor of Letters) from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He is also Editor of the Cambridge World Archaeology series (28 volumes).Susan Alcock is John H. D'Arms Collegiate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan.Stephen Shennan is Professor of Theoretical Archaeology at University College London and Director of its Institute of Archaeology. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including "Genes, Memes, and Human History", and has edited or coedited many additional volumes, including "The Evolution of Cultural Diversity."The park's colorful history springs to life in these pages by writer Carol A. Kramer and the nonprofit Calaveras Big Trees Association. Images from the archives of Calaveras Big Trees State Park, the Calaveras County Archives, the Old Timer's Museum, the Calaveras County Historical Society, and the Society of California Pioneers showcase the rich history of this treasure of California's state park system.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Ethnoarchaeology in Action By David Barrowclough Ethnoarchaeology in ActionBy Nicholas David and Carol KramerReviewed by David A. BarrowcloughDepartment of Archaeology and Wolfson College,University of Cambridge, UK.Ethnoarchaeology in Action is something of a welcome departure from the usual format of the Cambridge World Archaeology series. Under the general editorship of Michigan's Norman Yoffee the series has hitherto directed itself to the production of a series of volumes, each of which presents a survey of the archaeology of a region of the world. Volumes such as Phillipson's African Archaeology (1993) and Harding's European Societies in the Bronze Age (2000) serve to provide an up to date account of research integrating recent findings with current interpretation.Departing from the regional survey, Ethnoarchaeology in Action takes a thematic approach to archaeology. Drawing on numerous case studies from regions as diverse and widespread as Michael Parker Pearson's (1982) study of changing mortuary practices in Cambridge, to Michael Graves' (1994) analysis of material culture boundaries among the Kalinga; from Yvonne Marshall's ethnoarchaeological study of New Zealand eel fisheries, which she used to inform her reading of Maori ethnography and ethnohistory, to Glenn Davis Stone's (1991, 1992) research into the dynamics of settlement among the Kofyar of Nigeria, which demonstrates the relevance of studies in human geography to archaeology.Few authors could range over such a diverse range of case studies as Nicholas David and Carol Kramer do, with such aplomb and good grace toward their subject. Nicholas David's passion and enthusiasm for his work is what is most striking about the man. He has worked in both Europe and Africa, and since 1984 has directed the Mandara Archaeological Project (1992), upon which he leans for many an example. Despite its name, it is primarily ethnoarchaeological in nature, focusing on the material signatures of practice and agency, to study the world view of the chiefly residences located in the Mandara Mountains of Cameroon.Carol Kramer was a pioneer in the development of ethnoarchaeology, having excavated Iron Age levels at Dinkha Tepe in Iran, as well as at other sites in Iran, Guatemala and Turkey. Sadly she died in December 2002, aged only 59. Her research on household patterns in an Iranian village (1982), and on the production and distribution of pottery in Rajasthan, India (1997), of which examples are offered in this volume, will surely be a lasting testament to her considerable methodological and theoretical contributions to ethnoarchaeology.The avowed aim of the book is to avoid producing an encyclopaedia which simply catalogues 'all we know' about ethnoarchaeology. Instead, the authors aim to act as guides through what remains, for many students and practitioners, a poorly understood, if not misunderstood, sub-discipline. On route they challenge the reader to a critical analysis of case studies through which to lead the non-specialist towards an informed understanding of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues in ethnoarchaeology.The underlying thesis of their book is that 'archaeological interpretation is founded and ultimately depends upon analogy' (2001: 1). The origin and raison d'etre of ethnoarchaeology is the recognition of the need for ethnographic material on which to base analogies. Ethnoarchaeology is defined by the authors as the study of living culture from archaeological perspectives. Conceived of in this way it is neither a theory, nor a method, but a research strategy. It embodies a range of approaches to understanding the relationships of material culture, to culture as a whole. It acknowledges both contexts of material culture, among the living, and as it enters the archaeological record. This understanding is exploited in order to inform archaeological concepts, and to improve interpretation. David and Kramer argue that ethnoarchaeology is therefore of equal interest to both processualist and post-, or anti-, processualist archaeologists.The authors present an excellent review of the scope and relevance of the discipline, of what has been achieved, most notably in the theoretical approaches of the 1980s and 1990s, and what is left to be done. The range and approaches to problems that can be accommodated under the banner of ethnoarchaeology is very large, as it draws upon science, social science and the humanities. There is room for processualist and post/anti- processualists. What is important is that different styles of ethnoarchaeology are appropriately geared to different sorts of research question.Adopting a topical approach to the material by subject area, case-studies are offered, which provide ample coverage of the various subjects: fauna and subsistence, artefacts and style, architecture and settlement structure, craft production, trade and exchange, mortuary practices and beliefs. Whilst adopting a topical approach they also manage to maintain an emphasis on the interrelationships between, and the embeddedness of, material culture in peoples' economies, social lives and systems of thought. Where ever possible critical analysis takes the form of contrasting processual and post processual studies, in terms of their approaches, and their ability to 'see' certain dimensions of the behaviour ethnoarchaeologists study.Ethnoarchaeology in Action by Nicholas David and Carol Kramer represents an optimistic, if not upbeat, take on ethnoarchaeology and its contribution to how archaeologists research and interpret the past. Furnished with examples from around the world, this is a useful reference book for both student and non-specialist practitioner wishing to develop an interest in the subject.
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