Late Bronze Age Power Dynamics in Southern Caucasia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Late Bronze Age Power Dynamics in Southern Caucasia write by Ian C. Lindsay. This book was released on 2006. Late Bronze Age Power Dynamics in Southern Caucasia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ceramic circulation study, based on instrumental neutron activation analysis, indicated that ceramics at Tsaghkahovit were produced almost exclusively from local clay, suggesting a striking level of economic insularity in both the fortress lower town and the citadel. I discuss how this may reflect efforts by fortress elites to restrict exchange and break the social networks that existed among mobile societies during the earlier period, and how local communities responded in the face of these new social, political, and economic conditions.
The Political Machine
The Political Machine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Machine write by Adam T. Smith. This book was released on 2020-08-04. The Political Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Political Machine investigates the essential role that material culture plays in the practices and maintenance of political sovereignty. Through an archaeological exploration of the Bronze Age Caucasus, Adam Smith demonstrates that beyond assemblies of people, polities are just as importantly assemblages of things—from ballots and bullets to crowns, regalia, and licenses. Smith looks at the ways that these assemblages help to forge cohesive publics, separate sovereigns from a wider social mass, and formalize governance—and he considers how these developments continue to shape politics today. Smith shows that the formation of polities is as much about the process of manufacturing assemblages as it is about disciplining subjects, and that these material objects or "machines" sustain communities, orders, and institutions. The sensibilities, senses, and sentiments connecting people to things enabled political authority during the Bronze Age and fortify political power even in the contemporary world. Smith provides a detailed account of the transformation of communities in the Caucasus, from small-scale early Bronze Age villages committed to egalitarianism, to Late Bronze Age polities predicated on radical inequality, organized violence, and a centralized apparatus of rule. From Bronze Age traditions of mortuary ritual and divination to current controversies over flag pins and Predator drones, The Political Machine sheds new light on how material goods authorize and defend political order.
The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia
The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia write by Charles W. Hartley. This book was released on 2012-11-19. The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together archaeological investigations of Eurasian regimes and revolutions ranging from the Bronze Age to the modern day.
Imperial Matter
Imperial Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Matter write by Lori Khatchadourian. This book was released on 2016-03-18. Imperial Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What is the role of the material world in shaping the tensions and paradoxes of imperial sovereignty? Scholars have long shed light on the complex processes of conquest, extraction, and colonialism under imperial rule. But imperialism has usually been cast as an exclusively human drama, one in which the world of matter does not play an active role. Lori Khatchadourian argues instead that things—from everyday objects to monumental buildings—profoundly shape social and political life under empire. Out of the archaeology of ancient Persia and the South Caucasus, Imperial Matter advances powerful new analytical approaches to the study of imperialism writ large and should be read by scholars working on empire across the humanities and social sciences.
The Archaeology of the Caucasus
The Archaeology of the Caucasus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology of the Caucasus write by Antonio Sagona. This book was released on 2018. The Archaeology of the Caucasus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This conspectus brings together in an accessible and systematic manner a dizzy array of archaeological cultures situated between several worlds.
