Power from Below in Premodern Societies (eBook, PDF)

The Dynamics of Political Complexity in the Archaeological Record
Redaktion: Thurston, T. L.; Fernandez-Gotz, Manuel

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume challenges traditional narratives on power, moving away from elite-centered models and focusing instead on the archaeology of commoners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009051323
• Artikelnr.: 70910663

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.