Coming to Terms with the Future: Concepts of Resilience for the Study of Early Iranian Societies

ISBN-13: 9789464261455 / Angielski

Reinhard Bernbeck;Susan Pollock;Gisela Eberhardt

O autorze

Reinhard Bernbeck is Professor of Western Asian archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin and professor emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University. His interests include the prehistory of Iran, archaeological manifestations of social and material inequality, economic exploitation and ideological dimensions of archaeological practice. Gisela Eberhardt is a project manager for the joint research project "The Iranian Highlands. Resiliences and Integration in Premodern Societies" at Freie Universität Berlin and an editor in the editorial department at the German Archaeological Institute's (DAI) head office. She holds a PhD in archaeology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was one of the managing editors of Edition Topoi. Susan Pollock is professor of Western Asian Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin and professor emerita of Anthropology at Binghamton University. She has long-standing research interests in village, early state, and urban societies in Western Asia and has conducted fieldwork in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. Her recent work has involved much more recent periods, with field projects on sites of the 20th century in and around Berlin. Her work draws on feminist and political economic approaches to the study of the past, with specific attention to processes of subjectivation and the place of commensality in social life.