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The archaeology of power and politics in Eurasia : regimes and revolutions /

"This book brings together archaeological investigations of Eurasian regimes and revolutions ranging from the Bronze Age to the modern day"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology
Otros Autores: Hartley, Charles W., Yazicioğlu, G. Bike, 1979-, Smith, Adam T.
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: regimes, revolutions, and the materiality of power in Eurasian archaeology / Charles W. Hartley, G. Bike Yazicioğlu and Adam T. Smith
  • Part I. The Rhetoric of Regime and Ideology of Revolution: 1. Archaeology and the national idea in Eurasia / Victor A. Shnirelman; 2. National history and identity narratives in China and cultural heritage interpretation in Xinjiang / Gwen P. Bennett; 3. 'Yerevan, my ancient Erebuni': archaeological repertoires, public assemblages, and the manufacture of a (post- )Soviet nation / Adam T. Smith; 4. Violence and power visualized: representations of military engagements between Central Asia and the Achaemenid Persian Empire / Wu Xin; 5. Public versus private: perspectives on the communication of power in ancient Chroasmia / Fiona Kidd, Michelle Negus Cleary and Elizabeth Baker Brite; 6. Lines of power: equality or hierarchy among the Iron Age agro-pastoralists of southeastern Kazakhstan / Claudia Chang
  • Part II. Materialities of Homeland, Practices of Expansion: 7. Homelands in the present and in the past: political implications of a dangerous concept / Philip Kohl; 8. Processes and practices of death: toward a bioarchaeology of dynamic societies / Maureen E. Marshall; 9. Ritualization of weapons in a contact zone: between the past and the present / Kathryn M. Linduff and Yang Jianhua; 10. Ethos, materiality, and paradigms of political action in early medieval communities of the northwestern Caspian region / Irina Lita Shingiray; 11. Legitimacy and control: the making of the imperial Liao heartland / Hu Ling; 12. A bioarchaeological study of Xiongnu expansion in Iron Age Tuva, South Siberia / Eileen M. Murphy
  • Part III. Regimes of the Body, Revolutions of Value: 13. Kazakhstan, postsocialist transition, and the problem of multiple materialities / Victor Buchli; 14. Forging social networks: metallurgy and the politics of value in Bronze Age Eurasia / David L. Peterson; 15. Where pottery and politics meet: mundane objects and complex political life in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus / Alan F. Greene; 16. Revolutions within production regimes: a study of technical variation in Kura-Araxes horizon pottery of the Eastern Caucasus / MaryFran Heinsch; 17. Beastly goods: pastoral production in the Late Bronze Age Tsaghkahovit Plain / Belinda H. Monahan; 18. From regimes to revolutions: technology and technique at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary / Joanna Sofaer; 19. On archaeology and politics across Eurasia / Geoff Emberling.