Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological History - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1646424964 ISBN 13 : 9781646424962

Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2024

Synopsis

Violence and Inequality explores the deep-time archaeological relationship between violence and inequality, focusing on prehistoric archaeology's contribution to the understanding of the human dynamics among coercive force, aggression, and the state. Detailed archaeological case studies within a strong theoretical framework built from historical studies consider the role of coercive violence in trajectories toward complexity, how levels and types of violence can be traced alongside emerging wealth disparities, and the social role of violence.

The assumption that violence and its threat buttressed elite social control is now challenged from various perspectives. This volume incorporates new models of the relationship between violence and social inequalities into the archaeology of social complexity, building more complicated and nuanced understandings of how different modes of social violence can militate different types of social constitution. Contributions from a variety of methodological angles--such as the bioarchaeology of health and trauma and radiogenic isotope studies and the aesthetics of violence--use a comparative perspective, drawing on data from the Southwestern US, Bronze Age China, early dynastic Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, Roman Britain, and the Andes.

Violence and Inequality offers an original and deep history of violence and inequality. Understanding the long-term intersection of violence and inequality and how they support or erode one another is of intrinsic importance, making this work significant to the study of archaeology, economic history, and collective action.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas P. Leppard is an archaeologist and prehistorian. He is coauthor of Human Dispersal, Human Evolution and the Sea and Cities and Citadels and coeditor of Violence and Inequality and Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity.

Sarah C. Murray is associate professor of Classics at the University of Toronto, author of Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age and The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy, and coeditor of The Cultural History of Augustan Rome.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Colorado
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1646424964
• ISBN 13: 9781646424962
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Leppard Thomas P., Murray Sarah C.
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