Title & Author:

Kalinga ethnoarchaeology : expanding archaeological method and theory / edited by William A. Longacre and James M. Skibo.

Publication:

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1994.

Description:

xvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Smithsonian series in archaeological inquiry

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index.
An introduction to Kalinga ethnoarchaeology / William A. Longacre and James M. Skibo -- Kalinga social and material culture boundaries : a case of spatial convergence / Michael W. Graves -- Why should more pots break in larger households? Mechanisms underlying population estimates from ceramics / Masakazu Tani -- Informant accuracy in pottery use-life studies : a Kalinga example / Mark A. Neupert and William A. Longacre -- Production and use technologies in Kalinga pottery / Meredith Aronson, James M. Skibo, and Miriam T. Stark -- The Kalinga cooking pot : an ethnoarchaeological and experimental study of technological change / James M. Skibo -- Use-alteration analysis of Kalinga pottery : interior carbon deposits of cooking pots / Masashi Kobayashi -- Pottery exchange and the regional system : a Dalupa case study / Miriam T. Stark.
The ethnoarchaeology of Kalinga basketry : a preliminary investigation / Ramon E.J. Silvestre -- Household pots and possessions : an ethnoarchaeological study of material goods and wealth / Brian Trostel.

Summary:

Based on twenty years of research in the highlands of the northern Philippines and constituting one of the best-known projects in the field, Kalinga Ethnoarchaeology examines the contemporary pottery and basketry of several small Kalinga villages, revealing how a traditional tribal group makes, distributes, uses, breaks, and discards their ceramics and how pottery and other material culture relate to human behavior. The book's contributors approach a single body of ceramic data from many different angles, encompassing both traditional concerns and developing trends in village ethnoarchaeology. Addressing fundamental questions of archaeological method and theory, the essays discuss why there is or is not a correlation between material and social boundaries, how pottery use can be inferred from use-alterations, why more pots break in larger households, what relationships exist between household wealth and material possessions, how a pottery distribution system works, and how and why technological change occurs. Providing tangible links between material culture and human behavior and organization, Kalinga Ethnoarchaeology will prove invaluable to prehistorians reconstructing past behavior from material remains.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1560982721 (alk. paper)
9781560982722 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Kalinga (Philippine people) Material culture.
Pottery, Kalinga Philippines Dangtalan Classification.
Ethnoarchaeology Philippines Dangtalan.
Kalinga (Peuple des Philippines) Culture matérielle.
15.31 methods and techniques of archaeology.
Ethnoarchaeology
Manners and customs
Pottery, Kalinga
Keramik
Ethnoarchäologie
Ergologie
Kalinga
Etnoarcheologie.
Keramiek.
Archaeology Methodology.
Dangtalan (Philippines) Social life and customs.
Philippines Dangtalan
Artefacts
Philippines

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Classification

Added entries:

Longacre, William A., 1937-2015, editor, writer of introduction.
Skibo, James M., editor, writer of introduction.
Smithsonian series in archaeological inquiry.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109154
Call No.: ID PLS NK666.K3.K35; ID:94-B3165
Status: Available