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- catalog abstract ""When O.W. "Bud" Hampton made his first visit to the peoples in remote parts of the highlands of Irian Jaya in 1982 and 1983, he found that their ancient stone-based technologies and culture remained virtually intact. During repeated and extended visits over twelve years, Hampton had unparalleled and irreproducible opportunity to observe the development, use, and cultural meaning of stone tool assemblages." "In this extensively illustrated, unique study, Hampton describes the complete cultural inventory and traditional uses of both secular and sacred stones, ranging from utilitarian stone tools and profane symbolic stones through ancestor spirit stones, power stones with multiple functions, and medicinal power stone tools. Hampton portrays the complete cycle of quarrying, manufacture, trade, and uses of the stones." "Archaeologists, anthropologists, and other scholars, as well as inquisitive general readers, will find Culture of Stone a valuable contribution not only to the ethnography of the New Guinea highlands but to archaeology and anthropology in general."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11372535.
- catalog coverage "Papua (Indonesia) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""When O.W. "Bud" Hampton made his first visit to the peoples in remote parts of the highlands of Irian Jaya in 1982 and 1983, he found that their ancient stone-based technologies and culture remained virtually intact. During repeated and extended visits over twelve years, Hampton had unparalleled and irreproducible opportunity to observe the development, use, and cultural meaning of stone tool assemblages." "In this extensively illustrated, unique study, Hampton describes the complete cultural inventory and traditional uses of both secular and sacred stones, ranging from utilitarian stone tools and profane symbolic stones through ancestor spirit stones, power stones with multiple functions, and medicinal power stone tools. Hampton portrays the complete cycle of quarrying, manufacture, trade, and uses of the stones." "Archaeologists, anthropologists, and other scholars, as well as inquisitive general readers, will find Culture of Stone a valuable contribution not only to the ethnography of the New Guinea highlands but to archaeology and anthropology in general."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Setting the Stage: Evolutionary, Cultural, and Environmental Contexts -- Ch. 2. Stone Tools and Profane Uses -- Ch. 3. Symbolic Stones and the Sociopolitical Framework in Which They Move -- Ch. 4. Sacred Symbolic Stones and Empowered Stone Tools -- Ch. 5. Yeineri Quarries -- Ch. 6. Tagime Quarries -- Ch. 7. Langda-Sela Quarries and Sources of Opportunity -- Ch. 8. Trade -- Ch. 9. Concluding Comments -- App. Variances of Religio-Medical Kits and Power Stones.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-320) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 331 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Culture of stone.".
- catalog identifier "0890968705".
- catalog isFormatOf "Culture of stone.".
- catalog isPartOf "Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 2".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "College Station, Tex : Texas A&M University Press,".
- catalog relation "Culture of stone.".
- catalog spatial "Indonesia Papua.".
- catalog spatial "Papua (Indonesia) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "306/.089/9912 21".
- catalog subject "DU744.35.D32 H35 1999".
- catalog subject "Dani (New Guinean people) Implements.".
- catalog subject "Dani (New Guinean people) Industries.".
- catalog subject "Dani (New Guinean people) Religion.".
- catalog subject "Sacred stones Indonesia Papua.".
- catalog subject "Stone implements Indonesia Papua.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Setting the Stage: Evolutionary, Cultural, and Environmental Contexts -- Ch. 2. Stone Tools and Profane Uses -- Ch. 3. Symbolic Stones and the Sociopolitical Framework in Which They Move -- Ch. 4. Sacred Symbolic Stones and Empowered Stone Tools -- Ch. 5. Yeineri Quarries -- Ch. 6. Tagime Quarries -- Ch. 7. Langda-Sela Quarries and Sources of Opportunity -- Ch. 8. Trade -- Ch. 9. Concluding Comments -- App. Variances of Religio-Medical Kits and Power Stones.".
- catalog title "Culture of stone : sacred and profane uses of stone among the Dani / O.W. "Bud" Hampton.".
- catalog type "text".