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People and Things James M. Skibo • Michael Brian Schiffer People and Things A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture James M. Skibo Michael Brian Schiffer Illinois State University University of Arizona Normal, IL Tucson, AZ USA USA jmskibo@ilstu.edu schiffer@email.arizona.edu The following chapters are reprinted in modified form with permission from the indicated sources: Chapter 3: Exploring the Origins of Pottery on the Colorado Plateau (with Eric Blinman), Pottery and People (1999), edited by J. M. Skibo and G. Feinman, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. Chapter 4: Smudge Pits and Hide Smoking Revisited (with John G. Franzen and Eric C. Drake), Archaeological Anthropology: Perspectives on Method and Theory (2007), edited by J. M. Skibo, M. Graves, and M. Stark, University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Chapter 5: The Devil Is in the Details: The Cascade Model of Invention Processes, American Antiquity (2005) 70: 485-502. Chapter 6: Ball Courts and Ritual Performance (with William H. Walker), The Joyce Well Site , edited by J. M. Skibo, E. McCluney, and W. Walker, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. Chapter 7: Social Theory and History in Behavioral Archaeology, Expanding Archaeology (1999), edited by J. M. Skibo, W. Walker, and A. Nielson, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. Chapter 8: Studying Technological Differentiation, American Anthropologist (2002) 104: 1148-1161. ISBN: 978-0-387-76524-2 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-76527-3 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-76527-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008920067 © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY-10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Cover illustration : “Colorful Cadenas,” courtesy of Nathaniel Hardwick Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com Preface The study of the human-made world, whether it is called artifacts, material culture, or technology, has burgeoned across the academy. Archaeologists have for centu- ries led the way, and today offer investigators myriad programs and conceptual frameworks for engaging the things, ordinary and extraordinary, of everyday life. This book is an attempt by practitioners of one program – Behavioral Archaeology – to furnish between two covers some of our basic principles, heuristic tools, and illustrative case studies. Our greater purpose, however, is to engage the ideas of two competing programs – agency/practice and evolution – in hopes of initiating a dialog. We are convinced that there is enough overlap in goals, interests, and conceptions among these programs to warrant guarded optimism that a more encompassing, more coherent framework for studying the material world can result from a concerted effort to forge a higher-level synthesis. However, in engaging agency/ practice and evolution in Chap. 2, we are not reticent to point out conflicts between Behavioral Archaeology and these programs. This book will appeal to archaeologists and anthropologists as well as historians, sociologists, and philosophers of technology. Those who study science–technology– society interactions may also encounter useful ideas. Finally, this book is suitable for upper-division and graduate courses on anthropological theory, archaeological theory, and the study of technology. The idea for this book came during a Fulbright sponsored trip to Porto Alegre, Brazil, by Jim Skibo in 2004, and conversations with Adriana Schmidt Dias, Fabíola Silva, Klaus Hilbert, and the participants in the seminar. The seminar was on ceramic analysis, ethnoarchaeology, and pottery use-alteration, but much of the discussion focused on how our theoretical approach to the study of technology contrasts with agency/practice, evolution, and other theoretical models currently in vogue. This led to a discussion between us and the decision to write this book. Although we had been collaborators for over two decades, this was our first co- authored book and we would like to thank the participants of the Fulbright seminar for the provocative conversation that convinced us to embark on this enjoyable enterprise. A number of people commented on the manuscript: Eric Drake, Nathan Hardwick, Vincent LaMotta, Fernanda Neubauer, Charles Orser, Tim Pauketat, Michael Schaefer, and William Walker. Nathan Hardwick also created the wonderful v [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |