Models for the millennium : Great Basin anthropology today /

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Imprint:Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c1999.
Description:viii, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4131320
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Other authors / contributors:Beck, Charlotte, 1948-
ISBN:0874805937 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-314).
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Part I. Historical Perspective
  • 1.. Where We've Been, Where We Are, and Where We're Going
  • 2.. Ethnography and Archaeology in the Great Basin
  • 3.. The Role of Paleoecology in the Development of Great Basin Archaeology, and Vice-Versa
  • Part II. Current Issues in Great Basin Anthropology
  • 4.. Current Issues in Ethnography, Ethnology, and Linguistics
  • 5.. What Happened in the Medithermal
  • 6.. Environmental Change during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition and Its Possible Impact on Human Populations
  • 7.. Paleoarchaic Archaeology in the Great Basin
  • 8.. Compliance and Academic Archaeology
  • Part III. Modeling Past and Present
  • 9.. Chasing the Will-o'-the-Wisp of Social Order
  • 10.. Thinking about Prehistory
  • 11.. Modeling the Gastric: Great Basin Subsistence Studies since 1982 and the Evolution of General Theory
  • 12.. Human Paleoecology and Foraging Theory in the Great Basin
  • 13.. The Relevance of Ethnographic, Archaeological, and Paleontological Records to Models for Conservation Biology
  • 14.. Using Lithic Artifacts to Explain Past Behavior
  • 15.. Dating the Archaeological Record and Modeling Chronology
  • 16.. In Search of Gender in Great Basin Prehistory
  • 17.. With an Open Mind: The Place of Rock Art in Northern Great Basin Prehistoric Cultural Systems
  • 18.. Anthropologists and Their Totems: Profiling and Paradigming in Great Basin Ethnography
  • 19.. Archaeological Models of the Modern World in the Great Basin: World Systems and Beyond
  • Part IV. Cooperative Efforts
  • 20.. Cooperative Research between Native Americans and Archaeologists: The Fish Lake Archaeological Project
  • 21.. Implementing NAGPRA
  • 22.. Beyond Consultation: Three Examples from the Washoe Homeland
  • 23.. My Life as a Used Site Salesman
  • Part V. Afterword
  • 24.. History, Theory, Archaeology, and the Management of Cultural Resources: Commentary
  • References Cited