Social theory in archaeology and ancient history : the present and future of counternarratives /
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction
- Counternarratives: the archaeology of the long term and the large scale / Geoff Emberling
- Part II. Cultural trajectories
- Social evolutionary theory and the fifth continent: history without transformation? / Tim Murray
- Structures of authority: feasting and political practice in the earliest Mesopotamian states / Geoff Emberling
- Counternarratives and counterintuition: accommodating the unpredicted in the archaeology of complexity / Steven E. Falconer
- Inscribing legitimacy and building power in the Mekong Delta / Miriam T. Stark
- Part III. Cities, states, and empires
- The city in the state / Carla M. Sinopoli and Uthara Suvrathan
- Cities and ideology: the case of Assur in the Neo-Assyrian period / Peter Machinist
- City and countryside
- image and text: balancing rural and urban values in third-millennium Egypt / John Baines
- Local courts in centralizing states: the case of Ur III Mesopotamia / Laura Culbertson
- Part IV. Collapse and resilience
- Writing collapse / Severin Fowles
- Objects in crisis: curation, repair, and the historicity of things in the South Caucasus
- 1500-300 BCE / Adam T. Smith and Lori Khatchadourian
- Leaving classic Maya cities: agent-based modeling and the dynamics of diaspora / Patricia A. McAnany, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Maxime Lamoureux St-Hilaire, and Gyles Iannone
- Part V. Archaeology and history
- Settling on the ruins of Xia: archaeology of social memory in early China / Li Min
- Anti-history / Shannon Lee Dawdy
- Part VI. Commentary
- The present and future of counternarratives / Norman Yoffee.
