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Record Nr.

UNINA9911049146203321

Titolo

Violence and Inequality : An Archaeological History

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Press of Colorado, 2023

ISBN

9781646424979

1646424972

Disciplina

303.609

Soggetti

Violence - History

Violence - Social aspects

Violence - Religious aspects

Equality - History

Equality - Social aspects

Equality - Religious aspects

Warfare, Prehistoric

Social archaeology

Prehistoric peoples

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Coercion, violence, and inequality in archaeological perspective / Sarah C. Murray (University of Toronto) and Thomas P. Leppard (Florida State University) -- Violence as a commons problem / Roderick Campbell (New York University) -- Monopolizing the means of predation : the origins of the Andean Sacrifice State / Darryl Wilkinson (Dartmouth College) -- Arenas of alterity and the aesthetics of religious violence / Edward Swenson (University of Toronto) -- Inequality at Chaco Canyon (900-1150 CE) : creating subordinates through coercion and fear or ideology and cohesion / Ryan P. Harrod (Garrett College and University of Alaska Anchorage) and Debra L. Martin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) -- Seeing socially sanctioned violence : insights from an archaeology of visibility / Brenna R. Hassett (University College London) -- Animals, violence, and inequality in Ancient Mesopotamia / Laerke Recht (University of Cambridge) -- The violence inherent in (creating)



the system : inequality, violence, and human sacrifice in Ancient Egypt / Roselyn A. Campbell (Getty Research Institute) -- Embodied inequality : skeletal evidence of colonization in Roman Britain / Robert P. Stephan (University of Arizona) -- The many dimensions of violence and inequality / Thomas P. Leppard (Florida State University) and Sarah C. Murray (University of Toronto)

Sommario/riassunto

"A multi-authored investigation of the relationship between violence and social inequalities in the archaeology of social complexity, exploring how different modes of social violence can militate different types of social constitution"--