Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-468) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Ethnoarchaeology: its nature, origins, and history -- Why ethnoarchaeology? -- The plan of this book -- The birth and definition of ethnoarchaeology -- A brief history of ethnoarchaeology -- The attractions of ethnoarchaeology -- Further reading -- 2 Theorizing ethnoarchaeology and analogy -- Explanation in social science -- Processual and contextual schools and styles of -- analysis -- Analogy -- Ethnoarchaeology and postprocessualism -- Further reading -- 3 Fieldwork and ethics -- Types of ethnoarchaeological research -- Assessment of field methods -- Challenges -- Professional ethics and the ethnoarchaeologist -- Further reading -- 4 Human residues: entering the archaeological context -- Middle range theory from S to A -- Deposits and sites -- Cycling, curation, lifespan -- Natural garbage and discarded meanings -- Abandonment -- Concluding remarks -- Further reading -- 5 Fauna and subsistence / -- Fauna and their remains / -- Subsistence -- Conclusion: the importance of ethnography -- Further reading -- 6 Studying artifacts: functions, operating sequences, -- taxonomy -- Archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches -- Identification of artifact functions -- Techniques of manufacture -- Taxonomy, emics and etics -- A note on change -- Further reading -- 7 Style and the marking of boundaries: contrasting regional -- studies -- Style -- Style at work -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- 8 Settlement: systems and patterns -- Settlement patterns and subsistence-settlement -- systems -- Hunters and gatherers -- Pastoralists -- Cultivators plus -- Concluding contrasts, mobility and sedentism -- Further reading -- 9 Site structures and activities -- Hunter-gatherer studies -- Nomadic pastoralists -- Mobile populations with domesticated animals -- Cultivators -- Engendered activities, engendered spaces? -- Concluding remarks -- Further reading -- 10 Architecture -- "Vernacular" architecture -- Why the Willow Lake Dene build log cabins and tipis -- Architecture in the Islamic world -- Sukur: the chiefly production of space -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- 11 Specialist craft production and apprenticeship -- Specialist craft production -- Organization of craft production -- Learning and apprenticeship -- Examples of craft specialization -- The ethnoarchaeology of iron smelting in Africa -- Blacksmiths and brasscasters -- Concluding remarks -- Further reading -- 12 Trade and exchange -- Exchange, trade, and distribution -- Concluding remarks -- Further reading -- 13 Mortuary practices, status, ideology, and systems of -- thought -- Mortuary practices, status, and ideology -- Ideology, domination, and resistance in other areas -- Linking technologies, objects, and social representations -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- 14 Conclusions: ethnoarchaeology in context -- Ethnoarchaeology as contributor to archaeological -- theory and practice -- Career passages and the centrality of ethnoarchaeology -- Lack of institutionalization, increasing maturity -- The future -- Reflexivity -- Bibliography -- Index