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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...
