Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
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Customs Bulletin
Customs Bulletin and Decisions
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Marking of Country of Origin on U.S. Imports
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Category : Foreign trade regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Category : Foreign trade regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Customs Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
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Customs Bulletin
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
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Customs Bulletin and Decisions
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Publisher:
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Customs Bulletin and Decisions
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Customs Laboratory Bulletin
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Category : Chemical laboratories
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Category : Chemical laboratories
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Special Warfare
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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The Life-Giving Stone
Author: Michael T. Searcy
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816501262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
In The Life-Giving Stone, Michael Searcy provides a thought-provoking ethnoarchaeological account of metate and mano manufacture, marketing, and use among Guatemalan Maya for whom these stone implements are still essential equipment in everyday life and diet. Although many archaeologists have regarded these artifacts simply as common everyday tools and therefore unremarkable, Searcy’s methodology reveals how, for the ancient Maya, the manufacture and use of grinding stones significantly impacted their physical and economic welfare. In tracing the life cycle of these tools from production to discard for the modern Maya, Searcy discovers rich customs and traditions that indicate how metates and manos have continued to sustain life—not just literally, in terms of food, but also in terms of culture. His research is based on two years of fieldwork among three Mayan groups, in which he documented behaviors associated with these tools during their procurement, production, acquisition, use, discard, and re-use. Searcy’s investigation documents traditional practices that are rapidly being lost or dramatically modified. In few instances will it be possible in the future to observe metates and manos as central elements in household provisioning or follow their path from hand-manufacture to market distribution and to intergenerational transmission. In this careful inquiry into the cultural significance of a simple tool, Searcy’s ethnographic observations are guided both by an interest in how grinding stone traditions have persisted and how they are changing today, and by the goal of enhancing the archaeological interpretation of these stones, which were so fundamental to pre-Hispanic agriculturalists with corn-based cuisines.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816501262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
In The Life-Giving Stone, Michael Searcy provides a thought-provoking ethnoarchaeological account of metate and mano manufacture, marketing, and use among Guatemalan Maya for whom these stone implements are still essential equipment in everyday life and diet. Although many archaeologists have regarded these artifacts simply as common everyday tools and therefore unremarkable, Searcy’s methodology reveals how, for the ancient Maya, the manufacture and use of grinding stones significantly impacted their physical and economic welfare. In tracing the life cycle of these tools from production to discard for the modern Maya, Searcy discovers rich customs and traditions that indicate how metates and manos have continued to sustain life—not just literally, in terms of food, but also in terms of culture. His research is based on two years of fieldwork among three Mayan groups, in which he documented behaviors associated with these tools during their procurement, production, acquisition, use, discard, and re-use. Searcy’s investigation documents traditional practices that are rapidly being lost or dramatically modified. In few instances will it be possible in the future to observe metates and manos as central elements in household provisioning or follow their path from hand-manufacture to market distribution and to intergenerational transmission. In this careful inquiry into the cultural significance of a simple tool, Searcy’s ethnographic observations are guided both by an interest in how grinding stone traditions have persisted and how they are changing today, and by the goal of enhancing the archaeological interpretation of these stones, which were so fundamental to pre-Hispanic agriculturalists with corn-based cuisines.