Archaeology and State Theory
Author: Bruce Routledge
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781849668507
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Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781849668507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vicente Lull
Publisher: OUP UK
Published: 2011-06-30
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0199557845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A critically acute summary of the main theories about the `State', from Greek antiquity to the present. The authors highlight the importance of archaeology to our knowledge of the formation and working of the first States and ask what state of social production led to the State arising as the self-interested regulator of social relationships.
Author: Bruce Routledge
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-11-21
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1472504097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After neo-evolutionism, how does one talk about the pre-modern state? Over the past two decades archaeological research has shifted decisively from check-list identifications of the state as an evolutionary type to studies of how power and authority were constituted in specific polities. Developing Gramsci's concept of hegemony, this book provides an accessible discussion of general principles that serve to help us understand and organise these new directions in archaeological research. Throughout this book, conceptual issues are illustrated by means of case studies drawn from Madagascar, Mesopotamia, the Inca, the Maya and Greece.
Author: Bruce Routledge
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2013-12-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780715636633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the constitution of political domination in premodern polities, illustrating common 'state-making' practices through specific case studies ranging from Sumer to the Inka and from Mexico to Madagascar.
Author: Bradley E. Ensor
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2013-12-05
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0816599262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Archaeology has been subjected to a wide range of misunderstandings of kinship theory and many of its central concepts. Demonstrating that kinship is the foundation for past societies’ social organization, particularly in non-state societies, Bradley E. Ensor offers a lucid presentation of kinship principles and theories accessible to a broad audience. He provides not only descriptions of what the principles entail but also an understanding of their relevance to past and present topics of interest to archaeologists. His overall goal is always clear: to illustrate how kinship analysis can advance archaeological interpretation and how archaeology can advance kinship theory. The Archaeology of Kinship supports Ensor’s objectives: to demonstrate the relevance of kinship to major archaeological questions, to describe archaeological methods for kinship analysis independent of ethnological interpretation, to illustrate the use of those techniques with a case study, and to provide specific examples of how diachronic analyses address broader theory. As Ensor shows, archaeological diachronic analyses of kinship are independently possible, necessary, and capable of providing new insights into past cultures and broader anthropological theory. Although it is an old subject in anthropology, The Archaeology of Kinship can offer new and exciting frontiers for inquiry. Kinship research in general—and prehistoric kinship in particular—is rapidly reemerging as a topical subject in anthropology. This book is a timely archaeological contribution to that growing literature otherwise dominated by ethnology.
Author: Oliver J. T. Harris
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-06-26
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1317497457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium provides an account of the changing world of archaeological theory and a challenge to more traditional narratives of archaeological thought. It charts the emergence of the new emphasis on relations as well as engaging with other current theoretical trends and the thinkers archaeologists regularly employ. Bringing together different strands of global archaeological theory and placing them in dialogue, the book explores the similarities and differences between different contemporary trends in theory while also highlighting potential strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. Written in a way to maximise its accessibility, in direct contrast to many of the sources on which it draws, Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium is an essential guide to cutting-edge theory for students and for professionals wishing to reacquaint themselves with this field.
Author: Laurajane Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1134367961
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a much-needed survey of how relationships between indigenous peoples and the archaeological establishment have got into difficulties, and a pointer towards how things could move forward.
Author: John L. Bintliff
Publisher: Oxbow Insights in Archaeology
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781842174463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Death of Archaeological Theory? addresses the provocative subject of whether it is time to discount the burden of somewhat dogmatic theory and ideology that has defined archaeological debate and shaped archaeology over the last 25 years. Seven chapters meet this controversial subject head on, also assessing where archaeological theory is now, and future directions. John Bintliff questions what theory is and argues that archaeologists should be freed from 'Ideopraxists', or those who preach that a single approach or model is right to the exclusion of all others. Marc Pluciennik again questions what we mean by archaeological theory and argues that the role of intellectual fashion is underestimated. He predicts pressure from outside archaeology to redirect our dominant theories towards genetic and human impact theory. Kristian Kristiansen argues that theory cannot die, but it can change direction and sees signs of a retreat from the present postmodern and postprocessual cycle towards a more science based, rationalistic cycle of revived modernity. To Mark Pearce the most striking thing about the present state of archaeological theory is that there is no emerging paradigm to be discerned; he proposes that Theory is not dead, but has instead become more eclectic and nuanced. Two papers offer a different perspective from other areas of the world; Alexander Gramsch examines the issue from the German tradition and shows that in Central and Eastern Europe not only has Anglo-American Theory had limited impact, but current discussions on the future of method and theory offer a broader view of the discipline in which older traditions are seen to form the foundation. Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus demonstrate that American archaeologists do not foresee the death of a genuinely archaeological theory (which they believe has never existed) but fear the real catastrophe would be the death of anthropological theory, because some anthropology today has become decidedly antiscientific, rejecting not only the controlled comparison and contrast of cultures, but also the use of generalization, both of which are crucial to theories and models and without which the longue durée will always be invisible.
Author: Randall H. McGuire
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-04-03
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0520254910
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“It is rare to read an archaeological book that has the capacity to inspire, as this one has.”—Mark P. Leone, author of The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital “Archaeology as Political Action is a highly original work that will be important for archaeologists and others concerned with processes of social change in the world today and, more importantly, with making a difference.”—Thomas C. Patterson, coeditor of Foundations of Social Archaeology “This powerful statement by a leading archaeological thinker has profound implications for rigorous archaeological interpretation, community collaboration, and political intervention.”—Stephen W. Silliman, coeditor of Historical Archaeology
Author: Gordon R. Willey, Philip Phillips
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
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