Michael B Schiffer

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Books

• Schiffer, M. B. (2011). Studying Technological Change: A Behavioral Approach.
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  This is my magnum opus, a synthesis of 35 years of studying technological change.;Full Citation: Schiffer, Michael Brian2011 Studying Technological Change: A Behavioral Approach. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.;
• Schiffer, M. B. (2010). Behavioral Archaeology: Principles and Practice..
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  ;Full Citation: 2010 Behavioral Archaeology: Principles and Practice. Equinox, London.;
• Schiffer, M. B. (2008). Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison.
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  ;Full Citation: 2008 Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ;
• Schiffer, M. B., & Skibo, J. M. (2008). People and Things: A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture.
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  Skibo did most of the work; I hope I receive most of the credit;Your Role: I contributed three chapters and collaborated on two others;Full Citation: Skibo, James M. and Michael Brian Schiffer 2008 People and Things: A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture.Springer, New York.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: He is a professor at Illinois State University;

Chapters

• Schiffer, M. B., & Hollenback, K. L. (2010). Technology and Material Life.
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  SBS should be disbanded;Your Role: I co-wrote the paper, but was the junior author;Full Citation: Hollenback, Kacy L. and Michael Brian Schiffer 2010 Technology and Material Life. In The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies, edited by Dan Hicks and Mary Beaudry, pp. 313-332. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Schiffer, M. B., me, m., & I, . (2010). Can Archaeologists Study Processes of Invention?. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
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  This is the most insanely bad and user-unfriendly form. PETS should be euthanized.;Your Role: I wrote it.;Full Citation: 2010 Can Archaeologists Study Processes of Invention? In Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology, edited by Michael J. O'Brien and Stephen J. Shennan, pp. 235-249. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: with my muse;
• Schiffer, M. B. (2008). Behavioral Archaeology.
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  ;Full Citation: 2008 Behavioral Archaeology. In Encyclopedia of Archaeology, edited by Deborah Pearsall, Vol. 2, pp. 909-919. Elsevier, New York.;
• Schiffer, M. B. (2008). Transmission Processes: A Behavioral Perspective.
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  ;Full Citation: 2008 Transmission Processes: A Behavioral Perspective. In Cultural Transmission and Archaeology: Issues and Case Studies, edited by Michael J. O'Brien, pp. 102-111. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.;
• Schiffer, M. B., Heilen, M. P., & Reid, J. J. (2008). Landscape Formation Processes.
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  ;Your Role: I mostly did editing and contributed one or two ideas. I should have been third author on the basis of my paltry contribution.;Full Citation: Heilen, Michael P., Michael B. Schiffer, and J. Jefferson Reid 2008 Landscape formation processes. In Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, edited by Bruno David and Julian Thomas, pp. 601-608. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA.;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Heilen is one of our recent Ph.D.s who works for a consulting company;

Journals/Publications

• Schiffer, M. B. (2011). A Behavioral archaeologist responds.
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  ;Full Citation: Schiffer, Michael Brian2011 A Behavioral Archaeologist Responds. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 18:336:348.;
• Schiffer, M. B. (2011). Archaeology as anthropology: where did we go wrong?.
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  This is the verbatim text of my distinguished lecture delivered at the 2009 AAA Meeting in New Orleans.;Full Citation: Schiffer, Michael Brian2011 Archaeology as Anthropology: Where did we go Wrong? Society for American Archaeology, Archaeological Record, September, pp. 22-28.;
• Schiffer, M. B. (2009). 2009 Ethnoarchaeology, Experimental Archaeology, and the “American School”.
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  Once again I am engaged in a make-work exercise that has no meaning whatsoever since there is no merit money. This is the most fucking unfriendly program I have had the misfortunate to use, with the possible exception of D2L;Full Citation: 2009 Ethnoarchaeology, Experimental Archaeology, and the “American School.” Ethnoarchaeology 1:7-26.;
• Schiffer, M. B. (2008). A Cognitive Analysis of Component-Stimulated Invention: Electromagnet, Telegraph, and the Capitol Dome's Electric Gas-Lighter.
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  ;Full Citation: 2008 A Cognitive Analysis of Component-Stimulated Invention: Electromagnet, Telegraph, and the Capitol Dome's Electric Gas-Lighter. Technology and Culture 49:376-398.;

Presentations

• Schiffer, M. B. (2010, 2010-10-01). The afterlife of artifacts: the Great Eastern Steamship. Mogollon Conference. Las Cruces, NM.
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  I was the keynote speaker, and I was fucking brilliant. ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Schiffer, M. B. (2010, 2010-11-01). Archaeology as Anthropology: where did we go wrong. AAA meeting. New Orleans.
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  I was the Archaeology Division's Distinguished Lecturer;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;