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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Introduction. I. Review of Ethnoarchaeology in India: 1. Ethnoarchaeological research in India: issues and perspectives/Bishnupriya Basak. 2. Ethnography as Ethnoarchaeology: a review of studies in the Ethnoarchaeology of South Asia/Supriya Varma. 3. Ethnoarchaeological research in Indian prehistory/Shanti Pappu. II. Anthropology and Ethnoarchaeology: 1. A contestation of Ethnoarchaeological translation of time/Swadhin Sen. 2. Probing anthropological representations: an analysis of Sarat Chandra Roy and his observations on the tribe and the Oraons/Sangeeta Dasgupta. 3. Ethnoarchaeology as history: an approach to the archaeology of shifting cultivation in Santhal Parganas/Ajay Pratap. 4. Relevance of folk traditions in the practice of Ethnoarchaeology: a case study of Eastern Ghats, South India/M.L.K. Murty. III. Role of analogy in archaeological interpretation: A. Settlement and subsistence: 1. Hearth types: an Ethnoarchaeological study in South Central Ganga Valley/Shahida Ansari. 2. Settlement pattern of the prehistoric inhabitants of the Ganol and Rongram River Valleys: an Ethnoarchaeological analysis/Sukanya Sharma. 3. Shifts in pastoral-agrarian continuum: Ethnoarchaeological lessons from settlement reorganisation in peninsular Gujarat/Swayam S. Panda. B. Studies in artefacts: 1. Earth - water - Goddess - snakes - a study of ritual artefacts of the snake Goddess: an Ethnoarchaeological approach/Kaushik Gangopadhyay. 2. Formation and growth of art centres: an Ethnoarchaeological study of sculpturing processes in Varanasi/Vidula Jayaswal. 3. Conundrum of past cultures of Northeast India through the windows of the present/Asadullah Ali Ashraf. C. Studies in technology: 1. Technology and tradition: an Ethnoarchaeological view/Jaya Menon. 2. Time, tradition and the wheel: the potters' technology of Central India/Anup Mishra. 3. Pottery tradition of the Lotha tribe of Nagaland: an ethnographic study/Chumbeno Nguille. 4. Ethnoarchaeology of a Potters' village in the tribal habitat of Eastern Ghats/P. Vijaya Prakash. 5. The potters of Mahasthan/Dominique Alios. 6. Kansaris of Bengal: an Ethnoarchaeological study/Pranab K. Chattopadhyay. 7. Gold washing in Eastern India/Prabhakar Upadhyaya and Vibha Tripathi. 8. Legacy of iron technology in India: a case study/Vibha Tripathi. 9. Reconstructing the past: ethnographic observations on shellworking at Bishnupur/Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee. 10. Glass bead production centres: an Ethnoarchaeological assessment/Alok Kumar Kanungo. D. Mortuary practices: 1. Iron age megaliths and contemporary megalithic practices in the tribal habitats of Eastern Ghats/Sujit Som and P. Vijaya Prakash. 2. A Burial site at Jotsoma and the mortuary customs of the Angami Nagas: an Ethnoarchaeological approach/Tiatoshi Jamir. Index. "Written by a group of distinguished scholars and illustrated with eighty-four colour photographs this collection of essays pertains to different aspects of Ethnoarchaeology with definite focus on crucial issues, such as the relevance of ethnohistoric accounts and the role of analogy as an explanatory tool in understanding the material culture and world view of past societies. It also discusses various problems that continue to plague this particular research strategy. The problem of presenting ethnographic data to archaeological record as a direct historical analogy results in an uncritical imposition of the present onto the past. This book seeks to examine the methodological problem and reviews the on-going debates on the definition and scope of the discipline with special reference to India. It is a first step towards reassessing, and reviewing the discipline with a much more critical perspective. This volume will be of use to the readers across the discipline of history, philosophy, anthropology, archaeology and heritage management." (jacket).