ISBN:
9781351012102
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (391 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Archaeology Ser.
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Keywords:
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Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- References -- Part I Theory from and for the field -- 1 Reconsidering egalitarianism for archaeological interpretation -- Introduction -- Essential versus assertive egalitarianism -- Egalitarianism as political and economic dominance: Looking back at Leach -- Peasants in Prehistory: Organisation of production against social exploitation -- Iron Age European societies: Egalitarian villages and households -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 2 Interpreting the dialectic of sociopolitical tensions in the archaeological past: Implications of an anarchist ... -- Dialectical analyses in history and archaeology -- Anarchists and dialectics: Some background -- Dialectics concerning the interrelation between various principles of anarchism -- Considering scales of application -- Dialectics of domination not restricted to material economy -- Potential for interpreting the Iron Age -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Egalitarianism as an active process: Legitimacy and distributed power in Iron Age West Africa -- Non-centralisation in contemporary scholarship (Is distributed power alternative in human history?) -- Decentralisation in the Voltaic region -- Archaeology and the origins of non-centralised complexity at Kirikongo -- Kirikongo as a single homestead -- Kirikongo as a community of independent Houses -- Kirikongo under centralised control -- Kirikongo as a complex decentralised community -- Accumulated nodes of power, political choice, and active egalitarianism -- Discussion -- Hereditary occupation groups -- House and kinship -- Collective activities -- Towards an archaeology of dispersed articulations of power and authority -- Acknowledgements -- References.
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