Social theory in archaeology and ancient history the present and future of counternarratives
This book reflects on big questions in archaeology and ancient history, including how societies grew and how they collapsed.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
2016.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44673255*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Introduction
- Counternarratives: the archaeology of the long term and the large scale / Geoff Emberling
- Part II. Cultural trajectories
- Social evolutionary theory and the fifth continent: history without transformation? / Tim Murray
- Structures of authority: feasting and political practice in the earliest Mesopotamian states / Geoff Emberling
- Counternarratives and counterintuition: accommodating the unpredicted in the archaeology of complexity / Steven E. Falconer
- Inscribing legitimacy and building power in the Mekong Delta / Miriam T. Stark
- Part III. Cities, states, and empires
- The city in the state / Carla M. Sinopoli and Uthara Suvrathan
- Cities and ideology: the case of Assur in the Neo-Assyrian period / Peter Machinist
- City and countryside
- image and text: balancing rural and urban values in third-millennium Egypt / John Baines
- Local courts in centralizing states: the case of Ur III Mesopotamia / Laura Culbertson
- Part IV. Collapse and resilience
- Writing collapse / Severin Fowles
- Objects in crisis: curation, repair, and the historicity of things in the South Caucasus
- 1500-300 BCE / Adam T. Smith and Lori Khatchadourian
- Leaving classic Maya cities: agent-based modeling and the dynamics of diaspora / Patricia A. McAnany, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Maxime Lamoureux St-Hilaire, and Gyles Iannone
- Part V. Archaeology and history
- Settling on the ruins of Xia: archaeology of social memory in early China / Li Min
- Anti-history / Shannon Lee Dawdy
- Part VI. Commentary
- The present and future of counternarratives / Norman Yoffee.
