Abstract
This paper examines from an ethnoarchaeological perspective how an object class, skirts, is differently categorized for the purposes of identification and function by two subgroups of southern Lao women. We discuss the use of several different testing procedures to discover and confirm the different kinds of attributes which weavers and nonweavers use to categorize their skirts. We found that study of category attributes facilitates insight into some aspects of southern lowland Lao values and concepts of ethnicity as well as provides guidelines for criteria to use in textile category formation of archaeological materials.
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