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Ecology of a Tool The Ground Stone Axes of Irian Jaya (Indonesia).

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perequin, Pierre
Otros Autores: Petrequin, Anne-Marie, Pelletier-Michaud, Alexandre
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2020.
Colección:Archéo Logiques Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Book Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of colour plates
  • Acknowledgements
  • Translator's note
  • Abstract
  • Foreword to the English edition
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ground stone blades as means of social and technical reproduction
  • A history of Irian Jaya in the global economy
  • Raw material determinism
  • Axes and adzes
  • Variability of hafting forms
  • Stone blades, at the heart of social reproduction
  • Stone blades as anthropomorphic symbols of therealm of men
  • 2. The Yeleme quarries (Kp. Paniai) et the ground stone blades of Central Irian Jaya
  • Rocks from the upper Ye-I River
  • The Wang-Kob-Me quarry
  • The Brahire quarry in Ye-Ineri
  • Blocks from the bed of the Ye-I River
  • From roughout to axe in Wano country
  • The Axe Trail
  • Accessing roughouts: the Yamo Dani perspective
  • From roughout to axe among the Yamo Dani
  • The expansion of the Western Dani andthe acceleration of exchanges
  • The Baliem and the realm of adzes
  • Axes and adzes, the prestige of stone blades
  • Partners and strangers: the limitation ofexchanges
  • 3. Material and social techniques of the Dani: black rocks and greenschists
  • The black rocks of Gomburu (Kp. Paniai)
  • The black rocks of Tagi (Kp. Jayawijaya)
  • Black rock axes and sacred objects
  • The quarries of Awigobi and greenschist blades
  • Ye-yao, the exchange axes
  • 4. Adzes of the Eastern Highlands (Kp. Jayawijaya)
  • From rock to adze in Langda
  • Exploiting rocks from the river
  • A production controlled by specialists
  • The learning process
  • Grinding and hafting
  • Exchanges and diffusion
  • Stone blade production in the Phu Valley and thewestward expansion of adzes
  • The archaeological sites of Koropun
  • Yamyhl, Red Digul and the Seashell Trail
  • 5. Ormu-Wari and the Lowlands axes
  • The Mumugo Valley and schist axes
  • Ormu and marriage axes
  • Quarrying context in the Cyclops Mountains
  • Knapping and pecking
  • Grinding and varnishing
  • Technical and social production in Ormu
  • Village specialization and exchanges
  • 6. The ground stone blades of Irian Jaya, a synthesis
  • A shared background: the balance betweennatural environment, modes of subsistence andpopulation density
  • Rocks and types of sources
  • Quarry access and the social context of quarrying
  • Quarrying techniques
  • Duration of the quarrying events
  • From rock to ground stone blade: segmentationof the chaîne opératoire
  • Shaping roughouts: raw material determinism
  • Manufacture and specialization
  • Grinding and grinding stones
  • Axes and adzes
  • Degree of grinding
  • Length of the stone blades
  • Handles for felling tools
  • Circulation of the blades
  • Stone blades for the living
  • 7. Postface
  • Metal versus stone
  • Ceramic techniques and acculturation processes
  • Supernatural beings and cannibalistic cuisine