Kalinga ethnoarchaeology : expanding archaeological method and theory /

This edited volume represents the results of ethnoarchaeological research on traditional ceramic production, distribution, and use among the Kalinga of the Philippines, a tribally organized, rice-growing society of part-time pottery manufacturers. This book is certain to become a classic among ethnoarchaeologists, ceramics specialists, economic anthropologists, and archaeologists in general for several reasons: it represents the longest-running longitudinal study ever carried out by archaeologists in an ethnographic context, it explicitly examines issues of craft production not adequately addressed by previous work, and it unabashedly reveals the logistical and political problems of long-term ethnoarchaeological fieldwork. Initially developed by Longacre in the early 1970s to further his studies of the social context of craft learning, the two-decade Kalinga Project has since involved almost continuous fieldwork by his many students and has expanded to explore a wider range of issues relevant to archaeological reconstruction of production systems. Paper topics include recognizing social boundaries through pottery "styles," examining the organization of regional exchange systems through ceramic distributions, using ceramics to estimate population densities, determining pottery function through use-alteration analysis, and constructing wealth and status hierarchies through comparison of household ceramic assemblages. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate collections. L. L. Junker; Vanderbilt University