{"product_id":"technology-as-human-social-tradition-cultural-transmission-among-hunter-gatherers-volume-7-paperback","title":"Technology as Human Social Tradition: Cultural Transmission Among Hunter-Gatherers Volume 7 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter David Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTechnology as Human Social Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology--prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition. In this approach, each artifact stands as an output of a distinctive operational sequence with specific choices made at each stage in its production. Jordan also explores different material culture traditions that are propagated through social learning, factors that promote coherent lineages of tradition to form, and the extent to which these cultural lineages exhibit congruence with one another and with language history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on the application of cultural transmission theory to empirical research, Jordan develops a descent-with-modification perspective on the technology of Northern Hemisphere hunter-gatherers. Case studies from indigenous societies in Northwest Siberia, the Pacific Northwest Coast, and Northern California provide cross-cultural insights related to the evolution of material culture traditions at different social and spatial scales. This book promises new ways of exploring some of the primary factors that generate human cultural diversity in the deep past and through to the present.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Groningen and author of \u003ci\u003eMaterial Culture and Sacred Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), editor of \u003ci\u003eLandscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), and coeditor of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and \u003ci\u003eCeramics before Farming\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). Jordan is also series coeditor for\u003ci\u003e Archaeology of the North\u003c\/i\u003e with Cambridge University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 424\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723933225023,"sku":"9780520276932","price":75.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9ab3ce396c7e098ef1b70f050e36bd8a.webp?v=1765100881","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/technology-as-human-social-tradition-cultural-transmission-among-hunter-gatherers-volume-7-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}