Killing civilization : a reassessment of early urbanism and its consequences /

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The concept of civilization has long been the basis for theories about how socities evolve. This provocative book challenges that concept. The author argues that a "civilization bias" shapes academic explanations of urbanization, colonization, state formation, and cultural horizons. Althou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jennings, Justin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2016]
Temas:
Cities and towns, Ancient.
Civilization, Ancient.
Human settlements.
Urbanization.
Civilization, Classical.
Villes antiques.
Civilisation ancienne.
Établissements humains.
Urbanisation.
inhabited places.
urbanization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Civilization, or Morgan's Golem
  • The Golem's march
  • Becoming a city
  • Çatalhöyük and the aborted cities of the Neolithic Near East
  • Cahokia's failure and the creation of the Mississippian cultural horizon
  • Harappa and the walled cities of the Indus river valley
  • Jenne-jeno and the clustered cities of the Inland Niger Delta
  • Tiahuanaco and the creation of the Andean middle horizon
  • Monte Albán and the making of a Zapotec state
  • Without civilization.

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