The Neighbor Factor: Basket Designs in Northern and Central California

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" The Neighbor Factor: Basket Designs in Northern and Central California "
Washburn, Dorothy K

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	939487
Doc. No	:	LA3k9988v0
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Washburn, Dorothy K
Title & Author	:	The Neighbor Factor: Basket Designs in Northern and Central California [Article]\ Washburn, Dorothy K
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Volume/ Issue Number	:	9/2
Date	:	1987
Abstract	:	This paper is a test of the use of symmetry analysis of basket design to measure interaction among northern and central California Indian cultures. Although long-distance trade networks and casual exchanges at ceremonies have long been known as vehicles for cultural interchange, anthropologists have not systematically used criteria other than language for studying affiliations. Differences in language classically have been used to define tribal entities, but the subsequent consideration of other cultural information within these linguistic units has masked the fact that much information and actual interaction crosses these ''unintelligible'' boundaries.