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American flintknappers : Stone Age art in the age of computers /

"Whittaker's American Flintknappers will be an important resource for students of modern replication studies. This publication not only presents information on modern non-academic flintknappers, it also addresses issues of interest to anyone studying folk technologies in general."--Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whittaker, John C. (John Charles), 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Coming to the Knap-in
  • The Knap-in Ethos
  • Sources of Information
  • The Knap-in at Fort Osage
  • Making Stone Tools: The World's Oldest Craft
  • The Processes of Flintknapping
  • Tools and the Knappers' Ethos
  • From Fakes and Experiments to Knap-ins: The Roots of Modern Flintknapping
  • Charlie Shewey
  • Early Archaeologists and Fakers
  • Native Knappers
  • Mack Tussinger and the Oklahoma Eccentrics
  • Daniel, Howe, and Others
  • McCormick the Folsom Fluter
  • Bryon Rinehart and Grey Ghosts
  • Richard Warren--Scale Work and Lap Knapping
  • Patterns in the Early Modern Knappers
  • Halvor Skavlem and the Hobby Knapper
  • Archaeology and Replication
  • Knapping Newsletters
  • The First Knap-ins
  • Waldorf and The Art of Flintknapping
  • Transition to the Current Scene
  • The Current Scene
  • The Knap-in: People and Organization
  • Bob Hunt, Organizer at Fort Osage
  • George Eklund, Commercial Knapper
  • Jim Regan, Copper Toolsmith.
  • Gene Stapleton, Dealing in Stone
  • Percy Atkinson: Gourds, Axes, and Philosophy
  • D.C. and Val Waldorf, Knap-in Professionals
  • Ingrid Jones, Knapper Spouse
  • Knapper Demography
  • A Continent of Knap-ins
  • Mid-West Flintknappers' Convention, June 1993
  • Pine City Knap-in
  • Evergreen Lake Knap-in, July 1996
  • Genesee Valley Flint Knappers Association Knap-in, August 1996
  • Flint Ridge Knap-in, August 1996
  • Knap-in Generalities
  • Knappers at the Knap-in
  • Culture and Community of Practice
  • Performance
  • Learning to Knap
  • Learning the Ethos
  • Politics, Gender, and Ethnicity
  • Expressions of Identity
  • The Chipping Keeps You Going: Why Knappers Knap
  • Status and Stones
  • The Knap-in as Egalitarian Event
  • Ooga-Booga, a Ritual of Inclusion
  • Status and Competition in Knapping
  • Talking with Stone: Ritual Exchange and Expression of Status
  • Art, Craft, or Reproduction: Knapper Esthetics
  • Stone Tools as Art and Folk Art
  • Two Knappers, Two Attitudes.
  • The Ideal Point: Common Esthetic Rules
  • The Rules in Action: Knapping Contests
  • Imitation as Esthetic Goal
  • Point Types and Artistic Choices
  • Replicas and the Art of Knapping
  • Can't Never Have Too Much Flint: The Lore of Stone
  • The Mystique of Stone
  • The Qualities of Stone
  • The Quest for Stone
  • Decreasing Resources
  • Modern Stone Age Economics
  • Frank Stevens, Knap-in Entrepreneur
  • A Trip to Quartzite
  • Market Knapping
  • Art Knapping
  • Dale Cannon and Stone Knives
  • Knappers, Collectors, Archaeologists: Ethics and Conflicts
  • Replicas, Fakes, and Art
  • Fakes, Replicas, and Ethics
  • Murmurings at the Knap-in
  • Woody's Dreams and Knappers' Nightmares
  • Fakes and Archaeology
  • Counting Knappers and Points
  • Markets, Again
  • The World of Collecting
  • Authentication
  • Archaeological Impacts of Modern Knapping: Collections
  • The Creation and Destruction of Sites
  • Epilogue: Sin and Society
  • Silicon and Society
  • Silicon Connections
  • Forming and Breaking
  • The Future
  • Appendix A. Knapper Mail Survey Questionnaire
  • Appendix B. Fall 1996 Fort Osage Knap-in Registration
  • Appendix C. New York Knap-in Contest Rules, 1994
  • Appendix D. New York Knap-in Contest Rules, 1996.