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Author Whitley, David

Title Cognitive Archaeology : Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (353 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Archaeology Ser
Routledge Studies in Archaeology Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 The benefits of an ethnographically informed cognitive archaeology -- Notes -- References -- 2 Cognitive archaeology revisited: Agency, structure and the interpreted past -- Archaeology and the neoliberal turn -- Cognitive archaeology revisited -- Cognition and culture -- Cognitive universals, natural constants and structural principles -- Commitment to scientific method -- Ethnography and the Direct Historical Approach
Culture, society and cognitive archaeology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Ethnographic texts and rock art in southern Africa: A personal perspective -- A journey to ethnography -- New approaches -- Unities in diversity -- A central San ritual -- Further insights -- The fit between San ethnography and rock art -- Ethnography and rock art -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- 4 Cultural traditions on the High Plains: Apishapa, Sopris, and High Plains Upper Republican -- Cultural traditions -- Ethnographic models -- Great Basin hunter-gatherers
Northern Caddoan bison-hunting farmers -- Puebloan agriculturalists -- Summary -- Archaeological traditions -- Apishapa -- High Plains Upper Republican -- The Wallace site -- The Buick Camp site -- Sopris -- Interaction -- Apishapa and Sopris -- Apishapa and High Plains Upper Republican -- Pinyon Canyon -- Cramer -- Avery Ranch -- Ocean Vista -- Calumet connections -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 5 Paquimé's appeal: The creation of an elite pilgrimage site in the North American Southwest -- The emergence of Paquimé as a religious center -- Pilgrimages
Paquimé as a pilgrimage location -- Making it a place worth visiting -- Discussion and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 6 Ntshekane and the Central Cattle Pattern: Reconstructing settlement history -- Central Cattle Pattern -- Ntshekane -- Description -- Method -- Results -- Ntshekane phase -- Ndondondwane phase -- Msuluzi phase -- Male leadership -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 7 Homesteads, pots, and marriage in southeast southern Africa: Cognitive models and the dynamic past -- The cultural sequence -- Economy and cosmology -- The Kalundu Tradition phases
Summary The Moor Park phase -- Summary -- Implications for politics -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 8 A cognitive approach to the ordering of the world: Some case studies from the Sotho- and Tswana-speaking people of South Afr -- Folk taxonomy -- The animal world -- The plant world -- The world of artifacts -- Pottery -- Tobacco -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 9 Anthropomorphic pottery effigies as guardian spirits in the Lower Mississippi Valley -- Chucalissa and Choctaws
Notes Eastern North American guardian spirits, witches, and anthropomorphic imagery
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Author Loubser, Johannes
Whitelaw, Gavin
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