DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE

Libro editado por Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands y Christopher Tilley (1989)

Contenido:

Introduction
Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands and Christopher Tilley

Approaches to the study of domination and resistance
Structure of the book
Domination and resistance
Political economy and ideology: historical transformations
European expansion, colonialism and resistance
References

DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE

1 A question of complexity
Michael Rowlands

The cosmological origins of complexity
Complexity as historical narrative
Complexity as a master discourse
Simple and complex in creative contradiction
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References

2 Discourse and power: the genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture
Christopher Tilley

Discourse
The Cambridge inaugural lecture
Acknowledgements
References

3 The limits of dominance
Daniel Miller

Introduction
Theories of dominance
Dominance and inversion
The multifactorial nature of dominance
Dominance and legitimacy
How pervasive is hegemony?
Conclusion: archaeology and limits of dominance
References

POLITICAL ECONOMY AND IDEOLOGY: HISTORICAL
TRANSFORMATIONS

4 The roots of inequality
Barbara Bender

Farming as a precondition
‘Natural’ divisions in gatherer-hunter societies
An example from the Upper Palaeolithic of south-west France
Conclusions
Notes
References

5 Towards a theory of social evolution: on state systems and ideological shells
J.A.Hall

Introduction
‘Bureaucracy [in pre-industrial conditions] kills capitalism’ Trahison des clercs
The organic state in the state system
Reflections
References

6 The imperial form and universal history: some reflections on relativism and generalization
John Gledhill

State forms and the divergence of occidental history
Culture and ideology in the evolution of the New World empires
‘Political economies’ and class formation
Conclusions: imperial states in universal history
References

7 Factional competition in complex society
Elizabeth M.Brumfiel

Factionalism in complex society
Identifying factionalism in the archaeological record
References

8 Sensuous human activity and the state: towards an archaeology of bread and circuses
Susan Kus

Notes
References

9 Anurādhapura: ritual, power and resistance in a precolonial
South Asian city
R.A.L.H.Gunawardana

References

10 Monastery plan and social formation: the spatial organization of the Buddhist monastery complexes of the Early and Middle Historical period in Sri Lanka and changing patterns of
political power
Senake Bandaranayake

11 A Buddhist monastic complex of the medieval period in Sri Lanka
P.L.Prematilleke

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12 Value, ranking and consumption in the European Bronze Age
Kristian Kristiansen

The social aspects of consumption
The ideological context of value and ranking
Conclusion
Reference

13 Marxist perspectives on social organization in the central European Early Bronze Age
Simon Mays

Introduction
Materials and methods
Results
Discussion
Summary
References

EUROPEAN EXPANSION, COLONIALISM AND RESISTANCE

14 Orientalism and Near Eastern archaeology
Mogens Trolle Larsen

Notes
References

15 The material culture of the modern era in the ancient Orient: suggestions for future work
Philip L.Kohl

References

16 Culture, identity and world process
Jonathan Friedman

Crisis and the structure of civilized identity
Fragmentation of the world system and the formation of cultural identity
Culture, in and out of the system
Culture and the global system
References

17 The archaeology of colonialism and constituting the African peasantry
Michael Rowlands

Introduction
The concept of Africa
Colonial representations
The archaeology of precolonial 19th-century Bamenda
Chiefdoms, states and the regional system
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References

18 Resistance to Western domination: the case of Andean cultures
Pedro Portugal

19 The development of an urban working-class culture on the Rhodesian Copperbelt
Owen B.Sichone

Introduction
Tribesmen, to wnsmen and peasants
The process of urbanization
The making of the urban culture
Conclusion
References

20 Class formation in precolonial Nigeria: the case of Eastern and Western Nigeria and the Middle Belt
Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali

Theoretical considerations on the question of class formation
Surplus production
Manifestations of the natural and technical divisions of labour
The appropriation of surplus
Other levels of socio-economic organization
Slavery
Aspects of accumulation
Conclusion
Notes
References

21 Violence and consent in a peasant society
B.K.Jahangir

Introduction
Class situation
Imposition of military society
Militarism: national and international class structures
National security: hegemony crisis
Class project and political project
Conclusion

STATE and SOCIETY

The emergence and development of social hierarchy and political centralization




Libro editado por John Gledhill, Barbara Bender y Mogens Trolle Larsen (1988 -edición digital 2005).


Indice

Introduction: the comparative analysis of social and political transitions
John Gledhill

Social evolution and world-historical time
The pitfalls of supra-historical definitions
Chiefdom to state: gradual and quantitative transition or nonevent?
State and class
Europe and its ‘others’
Archaeological perspectives on state formation

RANKED SOCIETIES AND THE TRANSITION OF STATEHOOD

1 Small fish in a big sea: geographical dispersion and sociopolitical centralization in the Marshall Islands
Laurence Marshall Carucci
2 Evolution, sequential hierarchy, and areal integration: the case of traditional Samoan society
Thomas Bargatzky
Introduction
Simultaneous hierarchy and sequential hierarchy
The occasional ceremonial hierarchy of Safata
Ramifying descent groups in Samoa
Safata: an early state?
Discussion
3 The Hawaiian transformation of Ancestral Polynesian Society: conceptualizing chiefly states
Matthew Spriggs
Introduction
The Hawaiian cultural sequence
Interpretations of the Hawaiian sequence
A revised Hawaiian model
Conclusions

THE DYNAMICS OF STATE FORMATION: FORMATION PROCESSES, CUMULATIVE AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT, DEVOLUTION AND RESISTANCE

4 State formation and uneven development
Christine Ward GaileyThomas C.Patterson
Tribute-based states
The communal mode of production
The Germanic mode of production
The lineage mode of production
Discussion
5 Subsistence, social control of resources and the development of complex society in the Valley of Mexico
Brigitte Boehm de Lameiras
The primitive ancestors (6000?–1500 BC)
The first agricultural villages (1500–600 BC)
The development of cities (600 BC–AD 300) 92
The rise of an imperial state: Teotihuacan (c. AD 200–700)
The Toltec expansion (AD 700–1100)
A new reconcentration of efforts (AD 1100–1500)
Some conclusions
6 Hierarchization in Maya segmentary states
John W.Fox
Economics and ethnohistory
Chontal migration from ethnohistory
Segmentary lineage organization
Proxemics of segmentary lineage organization
Successive triparti te tiers
Genealogy and geography
Control of provinces and fragmentation
7 A cycle of development and decline in the early phases of civilization in Palestine: an analysis of the Intermediate Bronze Period (2200–2000 BC)
Talia Shay
Introduction
Theoretical background: definition of social change
The hypothetical explanations of the transition from Early to
Intermediate Bronze
8 Emerging towns in Benin and Ishan (Nigeria) AD 500–1500
P.J.Darling
9 Control of resources in the medieval period
C.G.Harfield
The need for a broader context
Lordship sites and the control of economic resources
10 Copper production and eastern Mediterranean trade: the rise of complex society on Cyprus
A.Bernard Knapp
Introduction
Archaeological background
Economic aspects: production, transportation, and exchange
Ideology and social organization
Copper, cosmopolitanism, and political power
Conclusions

THE RÔLE OF WRITING AND LITERACY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL POWER
Introduction: literacy and social complexity
Mogens Trolle Larsen
Interpretations: literacy and complexity
Mesopotamian writing
The logic of writing: Uruk and Peru
Conclusion

12 Literacy, social organization, and the archaeological record: the case of early Egypt
John Baines
Introduction
The context of writing
Early Egyptian writing
The 3rd-4th dynasties: development and its control
Extension and loosening of the system
Discussion
Conclusion
13 Power and authority in Early Historic Scotland: Pictish symbol stones and other documents
Stephen T.Driscoll
Historical synopsis
Pictish state formation: administration and discourse
Pictish symbol stones and symbolic discourse
Monumental symbols
14 Literacy and power: the introduction and use of writing in Early Historic Scotland
Margaret R.Nieke
15 Inventions of writing
Michael Harbsmeier
Technology and magic
Knowledge and power
Recapitulations

EUROPEAN COLONIALISM, THE TRANSFORMATION OF INDIGENOUS STATE FORMS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN NATIONAL STATES

16 Patrimonialism, involution, and the agrarian question in Java: a Weberian analysis of class relations and servile labour
J.I.(Hans) Bakker
Introduction
Classic Indic states
Weber’s typology
Alternative models
Servile labour
Peripheralization?
World economy and patrimonialism
Japan and Java
Conclusion
17 Legacies of empire: political centralization and class formation in the Hispanic-American world
John Gledhill
The Spanish conquest as a disjunction in New World history
Class, state, and conquered in the Americas
Views from below: an example from central Mexico
Resistance to capitalism and to centralization
18 The centralization of education in Mexico: subordination and autonomy
Humberto González Chávez
The unit of analysis
The municipality and the centralization of education
The scope and implications of the centralization of education
Education and local social change
Conclusions

Sensible Objects

Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture





Libro editado por Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden y Ruth B. Phillips (2006)



Introduction
Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden, and Ruth B. Phillips

Part 1 The Senses
1 Enduring and Endearing Feelings and the Transformation of Material Culture in West Africa Kathryn Linn Geurts and Elvis Gershon Adikah
2 Studio Photography and the Aesthetics of Citizenship in The Gambia, West Africa
Liam Buckley
3 Cooking Skill, the Senses, and Memory: The Fate of Practical Knowledge
David Sutton

Part 2 Colonialism
4 Mata Ora: Chiseling the Living Face, Dimensions of Maori Tattoo
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
5 Smoked Fish and Fermented Oil: Taste and Smell among the Kwakwaka’wakw
Aldona Jonaitis
6 Sonic Spectacles of Empire: The Audio-Visual Nexus, Delhi–London, 1911–12
Tim Barringer

Part 3 Museums
7 The Museum as Sensescape: Western Sensibilities and Indigenous Artifacts
Constance Classen and David Howes
8 The Fate of the Senses in Ethnographic Modernity: The Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History
Diane Losche
9 Contact Points: Museums and the Lost Body Problem
Jeffrey David Feldman
10 The Beauty of Letting Go: Fragmentary Museums and Archaeologies of Archive
Sven Ouzman