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.

Format Book
Publication InfoTucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxv, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorStark, Miriam T.
Other author/creatorBowser, Brenda J., 1957-
Other author/creatorHorne, Lee.
Other author/creatorKramer, Carol, 1943-2002.
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 -- Technical traditions and cultural identity : an ethnoarchaeological study of Andhra Pradesh potters / Laure Degoy -- 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.
General note"We organized this volume to honor Carol Kramer's achievements in anthropological archaeology"--Pref.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-302) and index.
LCCN 2008018871
ISBN9780816526758 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0816526753 (hardcover : alk. paper)