The Social Economy of a Prehistoric Northwest Coast Plankhouse
Author | : Colin Grier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : British Columbia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Colin Grier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : British Columbia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Grier, Colin Foster |
Publisher | : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : British Columbia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth A. Sobel |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2006-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789201780 |
Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume is the cumulative result of more than a decade of research focusing on household archaeology as a means to gain understanding of the evolution of social complexity, regardless of underlying economy.
Author | : Barry L. Isaac |
Publisher | : Greenwich, Conn. : Jai Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jessica Joyce Christie |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292782616 |
Ancient American palaces still captivate those who stand before them. Even in their fallen and ruined condition, the palaces project such power that, according to the editors of this new collection, it must have been deliberately drawn into their formal designs, spatial layouts, and choice of locations. Such messages separated palaces from other elite architecture and reinforced the power and privilege of those residing in them. Indeed, as Christie and Sarro write, "the relation between political power and architecture is a pervasive and intriguing theme in the Americas." Given the variety of cultures, time periods, and geographical locations examined within, the editors of this book have grouped the articles into four sections. The first looks at palaces in cultures where they have not previously been identified, including the Huaca of Moche Site, the Wari of Peru, and Chaco Canyon in the U.S. Southwest. The second section discusses palaces as "stage sets" that express power, such as those found among the Maya, among the Coast Salish of the Pacific Northwest, and at El Tajín on the Mexican Gulf Coast. The third part of the volume presents cases in which differences in elite residences imply differences in social status, with examples from Pasado de la Amada, the Valley of Oaxaca, Teotihuacan, and the Aztecs. The final section compares architectural strategies between cultures; the models here are Farfán, Peru, under both the Chimú and the Inka, and the separate states of the Maya and the Inka. Such scope, and the quality of the scholarship, make Palaces and Power in the Americas a must-have work on the subject.
Author | : Bruce Granville Miller |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0774840897 |
In this book, anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, and Aboriginal leaders focus on how Coast Salish lives and identities have been influenced by the two colonizing nations (Canada and the US) and by shifting Aboriginal circumstances. Contributors point to the continual reshaping of Coast Salish identities and our understandings of them through litigation and language revitalization, as well as community efforts to reclaim their connections with the environment. They point to significant continuity of networks of kinfolk, spiritual practices, and understandings of landscape. This is the first book-length effort to directly incorporate Aboriginal perspectives and a broad interdisciplinary approach to research about the Coast Salish.
Author | : Amanda K. Taylor |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0295804289 |
Prehistoric houses on the Northwest Coast were built from wood, often within piles of discarded shells, leaving little archaeological evidence from which to confirm their presence. Is It a House? uses multiple lines of evidence to investigate whether the U-shaped depression surrounded by shells at the English Camp site on San Juan Island was originally a house constructed by native peoples. Each chapter addresses a different kind of evidence, including artifacts, sediment, faunal remains, and stratigraphy. The quantitative and qualitative analyses used to examine the evidence reveal new directions and insights for identifying houses in similar contexts. The editors introduce the research in the context of current and past Gulf of Georgia (Coast Salish) archaeology, and end by synthesizing the research evidence.
Author | : R. Alexander Bentley |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : 0759100322 |
This handbook, a companion to the authoritative Handbook of Archaeological Methods, gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists on all aspects of the latest thinking about archaeological theory. It is the definitive resource for understanding how to think about archaeology.
Author | : Anna Marie Prentiss |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 077482168X |
The Middle Fraser Canyon contains some of the most important archaeological sites in British Columbia, including the remains of ancient villages that supported hundreds, if not thousands, of people. How and why did these villages come into being? Why were they abandoned? In search of answers to these questions, Prentiss and Kuijt take readers on a voyage of discovery into the ancient history of the St’át’imc, or Upper Lillooet, a people whose struggles and successes are brought to vivid life through photographs, artistic and fictionalized reconstructions of life in the villages, and discussions of evidence from archaeological surveys and excavations.
Author | : Quentin Mackie |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0774840471 |
Our understanding of the precontact nature of the Northwest Coast has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. This book brings together the most recent research on the culture history and archaeology of a region of longstanding anthropological importance, whose complex societies represent the most prominent examples of hunters and gatherers. Combining archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography, this collection investigates several aspects of this cultural complexity, carrying on the intellectual traditions of Donald H. Mitchell and Wayne Suttles.