Domination and Resistance
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 23. February 1989
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-04-445022-1 (ISBN)
Description
This work resulted from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, 1986. The work is organized around five major headings - the development of complexity, modes of domination, domination and resistance, centre and periphery, and state and society. The main concern was with archaeological investigations and contributions to the areas of dominance and resistance. The Congress aimed to consider how to return attention to the more specific problems raised by the concept of complexity for studies of historical transformation and social reproduction, while evading some of the legacies of its ancestry within unilinear evolutionary theory. Topics are included on archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, social theory and historical sociological analysis which consider general questions of the relationship of dominance and resistance to complexity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line drawings and half-tone illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
768 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-04-445022-1 (9780044450221)
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Content
A question of complexity, Michael Rowlands; discourse and power - the genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture, Christopher Tilley; the limits of dominance, Daniel Miller; the roots of inequality, Barbara Bender; towards a theory of social evolution - on State systems and ideological shells, J.A.Hall; the imperial form and universal history - some reflections on relativism and generalization, John Gledhill; factional competition in complex society, Elizabeth M.Brumfiel; sensuous human activity and the State - towards an archaeology of bread and circuses, Susan Kus; Anuradhapura - ritual, power and resistance in a precolonial South Asian city, R.A.L.H.Gunawardana; 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; a Buddhist monastic complex of the medieval period in Sri Lanka, P.L.Prematilleke; the social aspects of consumption, Kristian Kristianson; Marxist perspectives on social organization in the central European Early Bronze Age, Simon Mays; orientalism and Near-Eastern archaeology, Morgens Trolle Larsen; the material culture of the modern era in the ancient Orient - suggestions for future work, Philip L.Kohl; culture, identity and world process, Jonathan Friedman; the archaeology of colonialism and constituting the African peasantry, Michael Rowlands; resistance to Western domination - the case of Andean cultures, Pedro Portugal; the development of an urban working-class culture on the Rhodesian copperbelt, Owen B.Sichone; class formation in precolonial Nigeria - the case of eastern and western Nigeria and the middle belt, Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali; violence and consent in a peasant society, B.K.Jahangir.