Title & Author:

The human mirror : material and spatial images of man / edited by Miles Richardson.

Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1974]

Description:

xxiv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
PART 1: INTRODUCTION: 1. Richardson, Miles; Images, objects, and the human story. -- 2. Fenton, William N.; The advancement of material culture studies in modern anthropological research.
PART 2: THE MATERIAL CONFIGURATION: 3. Rowlett, Ralph and Mary Jane Schneider; The material expression of Neanderthal child care. [Neanderthal burials]. -- 4. Holm, Bill; The art of Willie Seaweed: a Kwakiutl master [Willie Seaweed,, 1873-1967; Kwakiutl artist, carver, masks, totem poles]. -- 5. Miller, Arthur G.; Form and meaning in some Teotihuacan mural paintings: architectural contexts. -- 6. Sordonas, Augustus; The Ai or Sfondele: a beam press from the island of Corfu, Greece. -- 7. Robbins, Michael and Richard B. Pollnac; A multivariate analysis of the relationship of artifactual to cultural modernity in rural Buganda. [Uganda].
PART 3: THE SPATIAL CONFIGURATION: 8. Carter, George F.; Domestication as artifacts [Captain Cook, coconut, sweet potato, hibiscus, grain amaranths, peanut; turkey, chicken and animal distributions]. -- 9. Newton, Dolores; The Timbira hammock as a cultural indicator of social boundaries [Brazil, Timbira, Apinaye, Krikati; Pukobye]. -- 10. Kniffen, Fred B.; Material culture in the geographic interpretation of landscape. [Prairie region Louisiana].
BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATIONS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: 11. Schorr, Thomas S.; The structure and stuff of rural violence in a North Andean valley. -- 12. Katz, Pearl; Adaptations to crowded space: the case of Taos Pueblo. [New Mexico]. -- 13. Brown, Donald N.; Social structure as reflected in architectural units at Picuris pueblo. -- 14. Newton, Milton B.; Settlement patterns as artifacts of social structure. [St. Helena Parish, Louisiana].

ISBN:

0807100749
9780807100745

Subject:

Ethnology.
Culture.
Material culture.
Ethnologie.
Culture matérielle.
material culture (discipline)
culture note.
culture (concept)
Antropologia Cult Social.

Added entries:

Richardson, Miles, 1932-2011, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134739
Call No.: ID:86-B8379
Status: Available