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European metals in native hands : rethinking the dynamics of technological change, 1640-1683 /

Kathleen Ehrhardt's research addresses the early technological responses of the Late Protohistoric Illinois Indians, to European-introduced metal objects. In revealing actual Native practice, from material selection and procurement to ultimate discard, the author challenges technocentric explan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ehrhardt, Kathleen L., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Native technologies, European contact, and the processes and meanings of material change
  • Setting aside the "standard view" : revealing "style" and change in technological systems
  • Recovering Illinois copper-base metalworking style : the analytical program
  • Indigenous copper working in the midcontinent : situating Illinois copper-base metal use in late protohistory
  • Lost sheep-- in the jaws of the wolf : the mid-seventeenth-century Illinois in ethnohistorical and archaeological perspective
  • From kettle sheet to ornament : artifact forms, production, and use
  • Finding "style" beneath the surface : artifact composition and manufacturing history
  • Illinois metalworking style in contexts of social action and technological change.