Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Archaeology's relationship to the present and the past / Mark P. Leone
  • The modern-culture field school : teaching archaeology on the university campus / Richard Wilk and Michael B. Schiffer
  • The use of material culture in diachronic anthropology / Jeffrey L. Eighmy
  • A manifesto for modern material-culture studies / William L. Rathje
  • Waste not, want not : an ethnoarchaeological study of reuse in Tucson, Arizona / Michael B. Schiffer, Theodore E. Downing, and Michael McCarthy
  • Graffiti and racial insults : the archaeology of ethnic relations in Hawaii / C. Fred Blake
  • A herbalist's shop in Honolulu : traditional merchandising in a modern setting / Jane Allen-Wheeler
  • Ideology and material culture / David J. Meltzer
  • Don't fence me in / Patricia Price-Beggerly
  • The cemetery and culture change : archaeological focus and ethnographic perspective / Edwin S. Dethlefsen
  • Pennies from Denver / Nan A. Rothschild
  • The raw and the cooked : the material culture of a modern supermarket / Joyce E. Bath
  • The community store : a dispersal center for material goods in rural America / Paul L. Cleghorn.
  • A microarchaeological view of human settlement space and function / Alice W. Portnoy
  • The archaeological significance of counting houses : ethnoarchaeological evidence / Jeffrey L. Eighmy
  • Experimentation with modern materials / Cheryl P. Claassen
  • A simulative experiment in simple product manufacture / Charles M. Baker
  • Cumulative graphs and seriation / Daniel W. Ingersoll, Jr.
  • Brandon revisited : a new look at an old technology / Richard A. Gould
  • Making stone vases : contemporary manufacture of material-culture items in upper Egypt / Thomas R. Hester and Robert F. Heizer
  • A study of the work of a modern tanner in Ethiopia and its relevance for archaeological interpretation / J. Desmond Clark and Hiro Kurashina.