Power from Below in Premodern Societies (eBook, ePUB)

The Dynamics of Political Complexity in the Archaeological Record
Redaktion: Thurston, T. L.

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume challenges previous views of social organization focused on elites by offering innovative perspectives on 'power from below.' Using a variety of archaeological, anthropological, and historical data to question traditional narratives of complexity as inextricably linked to top-down power structures, it exemplifies how commoners have developed strategies to sustain non-hierarchical networks and contest the rise of inequalities. Through case studies from around the world - ranging from Europe to New Guinea, and from Mesoamerica to China - an international team of contributors explore the diverse and dynamic nature of power relations in premodern societies. The theoretical models discussed throughout the volume include a reassessment of key concepts such as heterarchy, collective action, and resistance. Thus, the book adds considerable nuance to our understanding of power in the past, and also opens new avenues of reflection that can help inform discussions about our collective present and future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009051125
• Artikelnr.: 66176553

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Carole L. Crumley; 1. Power from Below in the Archaeological
Record: Trends and Trajectories T. L. Thurston and Manuel Fernández-Götz;
2. Fragmenting Trypillian Mega-Sites: A Bottom-Up Approach Bisserka
Gaydarska; 3. Structure and Agency. On Bronze Age Tell Settlement in the
Carpathian Basin Tobias L. Kienlin; 4. Power Requires Others -
'Institutional Realities' and the Significance of Individual Power in Late
Prehistoric Europe David Fontijn; 5. 'And Make Some Other Man Our King':
Labile Elite Power Structures in Early Iron Age Europe Bettina Arnold; 6.
Societies against the Chief? Re-Examining the Value of 'Heterarchy' as a
Concept for Studying European Iron Age Societies Tom Moore and David
González-Álvarez; 7. Peasants, Agricultural Intensification, and Collective
Action in Premodern States Lane F. Fargher and Richard E. Blanton; 8. The
Spread of Scribal Literacy in Han China: All along the Watchtowers
Christopher J. Foster; 9. Confronting Leviathan: Some Remarks on Resistance
to the State in Pre-Capitalist Societies. The Case of Early Medieval
Northern Iberia Carlos Tejerizo-García and Álvaro Carvajal Castro; 10. The
Emergence of Monte Albán: A Social Innovation that Lasted a Millennium Gary
M. Feinman, Richard E. Blanton and Linda M. Nicholas; 11. Dispersing Power:
The Contentious, Egalitarian Politics of the Salado Phenomenon in the
Hohokam Region of the US Southwest Lewis Borck and Jeffery J. Clark; 12.
The Perplexing Heterarchical Complexity of New Guinea Fisher-Forager
Polities at Contact Paul Roscoe; 13. Restoring Disorder: Thoughts on the
Past and Future of a Politically and Socially Conscious Archaeology T. L.
Thurston and Manuel Fernández-Götz.