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Ants for breakfast : archaeological adventures among the Kalinga

Title: Ants for breakfast : archaeological adventures among the Kalinga / James Skibo.
Author: Skibo, James M.
Publication: Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, ©1999.

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Description

ix, 179 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Ants for Breakfast is about the adventure of modern archaeology. Seeking insight into prehistoric pottery manufacture and use, archaeologist James Skibo traveled to the remote Philippine highlands to live with the Kalinga people, once headhunters and one of the few groups in the world still using ceramics for cooking." "James Skibo's time in the Kalinga homeland was packed with the elements of a thriller novel: mystery, danger, sex, violence, death. He was witness to a world both subtly and vastly different from his own. In the course of his story, Skibo links his experiences to the development of modern archaeology, and such topics as human evolution, the peopling of the world, animal domestication, cultural logic, food taboos, basketball, Indiana Jones, even Imelda Marcos."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-175).

Contents

Living archaeology -- Funerals are fun -- Once were headhunters -- Ants for breakfast -- The bamboo classroom -- "Are we in danger?" -- What goes in must come out -- Kalinga justice -- When a town gets a road the people go crazy.

ISBN

0874806208
9780874806205

LCCN

99040540

OCLC

ocm41944735
41944735
SCSB-962148

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library