Social Transformations in Archaeology: Global and Local Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Kristian Kristiansen, Michael Rowlands

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 449
• Series: Material Cultures
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Social Transformations in Archaeology explores the relevance of archaeology to the study of long term change and to the understandings of our contemporary world.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
SERIES TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 5
COPYRIGHT......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 16
1. OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY IN ARCHAEOLOGY......Page 41
2. MATERIALISM AND MULTILINEAR EVOLUTION......Page 51
3. CONCEPTUALISING THE EUROPEAN BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES......Page 60
4. THE FORMATION OF TRIBAL SYSTEMS IN NORTHERN EUROPE, 4000-500 BC......Page 79
5. FROM STONE TO BRONZE......Page 118
6. KINSHIP, ALLIANCE AND EXCHANGE IN THE EUROPEAN BRONZE AGE......Page 157
7. THE CONSUMPTION OF WEALTH IN BRONZE AGE DENMARK......Page 193
8. CENTRE AND PERIPHERY......Page 229
9. CHIEFDOMS, STATES AND SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION......Page 251
10. CENTRE AND PERIPHERY IN BRONZE AGE SCANDINAVIA......Page 275
11. THE EMERGENCE OF THE EUROPEAN WORLD SYSTEM IN THE BRONZE AGE......Page 295
12. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF COLONIALISM......Page 333
13. THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND REGIONAL CONTEXT OF EARLY IRON AGE SOCIETY IN SOUTH-WESTERN GERMANY......Page 339
14. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF COLONIALISM AND CONSTITUTING THE AFRICAN PEASANTRY......Page 379
15. RITUAL KILLING AND HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATION IN A WEST AFRICAN KINGDOM......Page 401
16. THE EMBODIMENT OF SACRED POWER IN THE CAMEROON GRASSFIELDS......Page 413
INDEX......Page 431