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Modern material culture : the archaeology of us /

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Gould, Richard A. (Richard Allan), 1939-2020, Schiffer, Michael B. (Michael Brian), 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Academic Press, ©1981.
Series:Studies in archaeology.
Subjects:
Material culture > United States.
United States > Antiquities.
Archaeology > Philosophy.
Archaeology > Methodology.
Industries > United States.
Archéologie > Philosophie.
Archéologie > Méthodologie.
États-Unis > Antiquités.
Culture matérielle > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Antiquities
Archaeology > Methodology
Archaeology > Philosophy
Industries
Material culture
United States
Sachkultur
USA
Materiële cultuur.
Archeologie.
Industries primitives > Recherche.
Ethnologie > Méthodologie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Archaeology's relationship to the present and the past / Mark P. Leone
  • The modern-culture field school : teaching archaeology on the university campus / Richard Wilk and Michael B. Schiffer
  • The use of material culture in diachronic anthropology / Jeffrey L. Eighmy
  • A manifesto for modern material-culture studies / William L. Rathje
  • Waste not, want not : an ethnoarchaeological study of reuse in Tucson, Arizona / Michael B. Schiffer, Theodore E. Downing, and Michael McCarthy
  • Graffiti and racial insults : the archaeology of ethnic relations in Hawaii / C. Fred Blake
  • A herbalist's shop in Honolulu : traditional merchandising in a modern setting / Jane Allen-Wheeler
  • Ideology and material culture / David J. Meltzer
  • Don't fence me in / Patricia Price-Beggerly
  • The cemetery and culture change : archaeological focus and ethnographic perspective / Edwin S. Dethlefsen
  • Pennies from Denver / Nan A. Rothschild
  • The raw and the cooked : the material culture of a modern supermarket / Joyce E. Bath
  • The community store : a dispersal center for material goods in rural America / Paul L. Cleghorn.
  • A microarchaeological view of human settlement space and function / Alice W. Portnoy
  • The archaeological significance of counting houses : ethnoarchaeological evidence / Jeffrey L. Eighmy
  • Experimentation with modern materials / Cheryl P. Claassen
  • A simulative experiment in simple product manufacture / Charles M. Baker
  • Cumulative graphs and seriation / Daniel W. Ingersoll, Jr.
  • Brandon revisited : a new look at an old technology / Richard A. Gould
  • Making stone vases : contemporary manufacture of material-culture items in upper Egypt / Thomas R. Hester and Robert F. Heizer
  • A study of the work of a modern tanner in Ethiopia and its relevance for archaeological interpretation / J. Desmond Clark and Hiro Kurashina.