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A Prehistory of Ordinary People

Autor Monica L. Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 dec 2010
For the past million years, individuals have engaged in multitasking as they interact with the surrounding environment and with each other for the acquisition of daily necessities such as food and goods. Although culture is often perceived as a collective process, it is individual people who use language, experience illness, expend energy, perceive landscapes, and create memories. These processes were sustained at the individual and household level from the time of the earliest social groups to the beginnings of settled agricultural communities and the eventual development of complex societies in the form of chiefdoms, states, and empires.

Even after the advent of “civilization” about 6,000 years ago, human culture has for the most part been created and maintained not by the actions of elites—as is commonly proclaimed by many archaeological theorists—but by the many thousands of daily actions carried out by average citizens.

With this book, Monica L. Smith examines how the archaeological record of ordinary objects—used by ordinary people—constitutes a manifestation of humankind’s cognitive and social development. A Prehistory of Ordinary People offers an impressive synthesis and accessible style that will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and others interested in the long history of human decision-making.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780816526956
ISBN-10: 0816526958
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția University of Arizona Press

Notă biografică

Monica L. Smith is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the South Asian Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Archaeology of an Early Historic Town in Central India and editor of The Social Construction of Ancient Cities.

Cuprins

List of Figures
Preface
Prologue: A Chance Encounter
1 The Origins of Multitasking
2 Individuals and Food
3 Individuals and Goods
4 Individuals and Work
5 Multitasking and Social Complexity
References
Figure Credits
Index

Descriere

Monica L. Smith examines how the archaeological record of ordinary objects—used by ordinary people—constitutes a manifestation of humankind’s cognitive and social development. A Prehistory of Ordinary People offers an impressive synthesis and accessible style that will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and others interested in the long history of human decision-making.