Ecology of a Tool : the ground stone axes of Irian Jaya (Indonesia) /
New Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the wholemanufacturing chaînes opératoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarryextraction to finished tool use. Research on the polished blades...
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books
2020.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv138wsr5 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of colour plates
- Acknowledgements
- Translator's note
- Abstract
- Foreword to the English edition
- Introduction
- 1. Ground stone blades as means of social and technical reproduction
- A history of Irian Jaya in the global economy
- Raw material determinism
- Axes and adzes
- Variability of hafting forms
- Stone blades, at the heart of social reproduction
- Stone blades as anthropomorphic symbols of therealm of men
- 2. The Yeleme quarries (Kp. Paniai) et the ground stone blades of Central Irian Jaya
- Rocks from the upper Ye-I River
- The Wang-Kob-Me quarry
- The Brahire quarry in Ye-Ineri
- Blocks from the bed of the Ye-I River
- From roughout to axe in Wano country
- The Axe Trail
- Accessing roughouts: the Yamo Dani perspective
- From roughout to axe among the Yamo Dani
- The expansion of the Western Dani andthe acceleration of exchanges
- The Baliem and the realm of adzes
- Axes and adzes, the prestige of stone blades
- Partners and strangers: the limitation ofexchanges
- 3. Material and social techniques of the Dani: black rocks and greenschists
- The black rocks of Gomburu (Kp. Paniai)
- The black rocks of Tagi (Kp. Jayawijaya)
- Black rock axes and sacred objects
- The quarries of Awigobi and greenschist blades
- Ye-yao, the exchange axes
- 4. Adzes of the Eastern Highlands (Kp. Jayawijaya)
- From rock to adze in Langda
- Exploiting rocks from the river
- A production controlled by specialists
- The learning process
- Grinding and hafting
- Exchanges and diffusion
- Stone blade production in the Phu Valley and thewestward expansion of adzes
- The archaeological sites of Koropun
- Yamyhl, Red Digul and the Seashell Trail
- 5. Ormu-Wari and the Lowlands axes
- The Mumugo Valley and schist axes.
- Ormu and marriage axes
- Quarrying context in the Cyclops Mountains
- Knapping and pecking
- Grinding and varnishing
- Technical and social production in Ormu
- Village specialization and exchanges
- 6. The ground stone blades of Irian Jaya, a synthesis
- A shared background: the balance betweennatural environment, modes of subsistence andpopulation density
- Rocks and types of sources
- Quarry access and the social context of quarrying
- Quarrying techniques
- Duration of the quarrying events
- From rock to ground stone blade: segmentationof the chaîne opératoire
- Shaping roughouts: raw material determinism
- Manufacture and specialization
- Grinding and grinding stones
- Axes and adzes
- Degree of grinding
- Length of the stone blades
- Handles for felling tools
- Circulation of the blades
- Stone blades for the living
- 7. Postface
- Metal versus stone
- Ceramic techniques and acculturation processes
- Supernatural beings and cannibalistic cuisine
- Gifting signs
- Afterword to the English edition
- Bibliography
- Films
- Geographic index
- Thematic index
- Index of linguistic groups
- Back cover.