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"McNiven, Ian J."

 
 
 McNiven, Ian J.; Feldman, R. (detail)
   
2003
Ritually orchestrated seascapes: bone mounds and dugong hunting magic in Torres Strait, NE Australia.
Cambriidge Archaeological Journal 13: 169-194.
 
 
 McNiven, Ian J.; Bedingfield, Alice C. (detail)
   
2008
Past and present marine mammal hunting rates and abundances: dugong (Dugong dugon) evidence from Dabangai Bone Mound, Torres Strait.
Jour. Archaeol. Science 35: 505-515. 3 tabs. 9 figs.
 
 
 McNiven, Ian J. (detail)
   
2013
Ritualized middening practices.
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 20(4): 552-587. 12 figs. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-012-9130-y. Dec. 2013.
–ABSTRACT: Practice theory focuses attention on agency and the generative dimensions of sites and material culture in terms of social formation and reproduction. This approach is applied to the ritualization of midden deposits by Torres Strait Islanders of northeast Australia. Ritualization of middens was achieved by three depositional strategies of privileged differentiation: referencing of mortuary remains, discrimination of animal bones and mounding of deposits. In addition, ritualized middens were spatially separated into small residential mounds and large communal feasting mounds. Ritualized middening was part of a broader social process of maintaining the biographical status of midden materials as a dimension of community socialization, identity and cohesion.
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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