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Social Theory in Archaeology and Ancient History : The Present and Future of Counternarratives /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emberling, Geoff, Ed
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016
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Online Access:https://www.bokklubben.no/arkeologisk-teori/social-theory-in-archaeology-and-ancient-history-geoff-emberling/produkt.do?produktId=12186229
Table of Contents:
  • 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.