Ritual Craft Specialists in Middle Range Societies
INSTRUCTIONS:
Dear Writer, The sentences generally have to be short, simple and straight foreword.The flowing points must be considered in the paper. 1) Full citation of the piece being critiqued. Place the citation at the top of the page. 2) Identify the main goal or goals of the paper. What are the broad questions or specific hypotheses being asked? Are they theoretical, methodological, cultural historical or a combination of the above? 3) Identify the main assumptions and/or definitions used. These may be unstated rather than stated, but try to figure out what is behind the propositions presented. Does the author betray any particular bias or theoretical school (with its own assumptions) that is important to understand the direction of the argument? 4) Discuss the reasoning, argumentation or rational used in the discussion. Does it make sense and is it supported by evidence? If so, what is it? This can address the relationship between method and data if it`s a scientifically oriented article. If it is a theoretical piece than you should identify the rationale, philosophy or reasoning used. 5) Identify the main conclusions or opinions reached by the author 6) Finally, what is your evaluation of the article? This is where you demonstrate your own thinking and insight about the author`s views. Look for the good and the bad. This is an important component of the critique.
CONTENT:
RITUAL CRAFT SPECIALISTS IN MIDDLE RANGE SOCIETIESName:Grade Course:Tutor`s Name: (02 December 2010) Ritual Craft Specialists in Middle Range SocietiesKatherine A. Spielmann in the article “Ritual Craft Specialists in Middle Range Societies” takes a look at the prehistoric middle range societies where specialists produced items of social identity that were used for rituals. The author discusses ethnographic case studies that make the reader understand social identities of specialists that are involved with rituals.She focuses on the specialists and their economic activities that are based on the rituals and which have been identified as the "ritual mode of production". The question of the paper are based on cultural history and are also methodological since the author bases the arguments on the previous prehistoric case studies such as the Mimbres and Ohio Hopewell that focused on the range of ritual craft production scale. There is provision of data from the Iroquois and Northwest Coast tribes that have been found to deal with the ritual items production; the data is also backed by archaeological evidence that give the article a real touch. The rec...
