Archaeology of Communities: A New World Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415222785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str.

Marcello A. Canuto; Jason Yaeger

Opis

Using a broad comparative approach combined with a theoretical diversity, this volume employs a range of case studies to address the importance of the community (as opposed to the individual household or the larger polity) in understanding ancient societies. There is discussion of different ways of defining the community in the archaeological record, and social issues of identity and interaction are stressed. The volume also examines whether a universal, cross-culturally applicable notion of community is useful or even possible.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introductionducing an Archaeology of Communities, Jason Yaeger, Marcello A. Canuto; Chapter 2 Politicization and Community in the Pre-Columbian Mississippi Valley, Timothy R. Pauketat; Chapter 3 Heterarchy and Hierarchy, Mark W. Mehrer; Chapter 4 Making Pueblo Communities, Robert W. Preucel; Chapter 5 Between the Household and the Empire, Timothy S. Hare; Chapter 6 “;Crafting” Communities, Mary Lee Bartlett, Patricia A. McAnany; Chapter 7 The Social Construction of Communities in the Classic Maya Countryside, Jason Yaeger; Chapter 8 Heterarchy, History, and Material Reality, Rosemary A. Joyce, Julia A. Hendon; Chapter 9 Gender, Status, and Community in Early Formative Valdivia Society, James A. Zeidler; Chapter 10 Communities without Borders, Paul S. Goldstein; Chapter 11 Archaeological Considerations of “;Appalachian” Identity, Audrey J. Horning; Chapter 12 Toward an Archaeology of Communities, Joyce Marcus; Chapter 13 What we should be Studying, William H. Isbell;

O autorze

Marcello A. Canuto and Jason Yaeger are both conducting research in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.