Rock quarries and the manufacture, trade, and uses of stone tools and symbolic stones in the Central Highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia : ethnoarchaeological perspectives /
ancestor stones and to empowered sacred tools, all
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | ancestor stones and to empowered sacred tools, all ancestor stones were the cultural binders without and chisels were of particular importance in their and knives of distinctly different styles that are and trade regions are defined by the distribution and As much as 25-40 percent of axe, adze blades, and boundaries within the two regions. Profane symbolic chisels are manufactured and traded outward along chisels were removed by users from secular use and complex trade linkages from two internal independently converted to spiritually powerful sacred symbolic did. These symbolic stones were combined with different quarry- manufacturing centers. discussed and analyzed systemically. documented and analyzed. Two adjacent stone tool use East region. Tool blades trade freely across language east. Slightly differing types of quarry ownership, ground stone tool blades. In the Grand Valley and West hierophanies of great cultural importance. Adze blades kits. Profane display-exchange stones and sacred leaves, and a certain root were essential to maintain manufacture, trade, and uses of stone tools and manufactured and traded within the adjoining Yali and manufacturing centers, to the exclusion of adze blades material goods and associated behavior within cultural operated and geographically separated quarry and operational technology (including uses of tire), and perishable organic materials as decoration to visually perspectives, the complete cycle of quarrying, places in the domain of the unseen into those durable production techniques are discussed and shown at the region, ground stone axe and adze blades, knives, and sacred. socioeconomic implications of the above factors for stone objects that had been selected to be made stones trade across the regional boundary from west to symbolic stones, and the creation of other kinds of systems of different language-speaking groups are the continuum of supernatural power from unknown The sociopolitical, and to a lesser extent the the uses of fiber string, stems of grass, a few these inhabitants of Highlands Irian Jaya also are transmit important cultural information. In addition, uses as power objects in shamans' religio-medical uses of mutually exclusive kinds and styles of profane which the cultures would have ceased to exist as they |
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| Item Description: | "Major Subject: Anthropology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | 3 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 855-881). |