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Design Structure and Social Interaction: Archaeological Implications of an Ethnographic Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Margaret Hardin Friedrich
Margaret Hardin Friedrich*
Affiliation:
Field Museum of Natural History
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Abstract

Ethnographic study of painting patterns in a small Tarascan village showed that some variables reflected variation in the intensity of communication between painters while others did not. An analysis of the pottery painting style as a complex, multi-dimensional, hierarchically organized structure facilitated the selection of variables that were good indicators of communication patterns. Patterns of stylistic variation included 1) a distinct variant of the village style that was used only by members of one family painting group and 2) individual style in painting, which characterized the work of every painter. The concepts used in this analysis could be adapted to the study of similar archaeologically known styles so that the patterning of interaction between artisans might be established.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , July 1970 , pp. 332 - 343
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1970

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