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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.

Contributor(s): Stark, Miriam T | Bowser, Brenda J, 1957- | Horne, Lee | Kramer, Carol, 1943-2002
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2008.Description: xv, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780816526758Subject(s): Indigenous peoples | Indigenous women | Material culture | Intercultural communicationDDC classification: 305.8
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-302) and index.

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.