Archaeologies of the Middle East Critical Perspectives.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pollock, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2004.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Contributors
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Cultural-Historical Framework
  • Part I. Producing and Disseminating Knowledge About the Ancient Near East
  • 3. Who Has Not Eaten Cherries with the Devil? Archaeology under Challenge
  • 4. Archaeology and Nationalism in Holy Land
  • 5. Archaeology Goes to War at the Newsstand
  • 6. The Past as Fact and Fiction: From Historical Novels to Novel Histories
  • Part II. Reassessing Evolutionary "Firsts"
  • 7. Bleeding or Bleeding: Neandertals vs. Early Modern Humans in the Middle Paleolithic Levant
  • 8. Lumps of Clay and Pieces of Stone: Ambiguity, Bodies, and Identity as Portrayed in Neolithic Figurines
  • 9. The State: The Process of State Formation as Seen from Mesopotamia
  • 10. Archaeology, Bible, and the History of the Levant in the Iron Age
  • 11. Imperialism
  • Part III. Constructing Arguments, Understanding Perceptions
  • 12. Ethnoarchaeology, Analogy, and Ancient Society
  • 13. The Ancient Sumerians in the Tides of Time
  • 14. Reliquaries on the Landscape: Mounds as Matrices of Human Cognition
  • 15. Archaeology and Texts in the Ancient Near East
  • 16. Representations, Reality, and Ideology
  • Index

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