LEADER 04881nam 22010694a 450 001 996248285703316 005 20240410064620.0 010 $a9786612762857 010 $a0-520-93699-X 010 $a1-282-76285-0 010 $a1-59734-814-7 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520936997 035 $a(CKB)1000000000006184 035 $a(EBL)224194 035 $a(OCoLC)475929988 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223610 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11172982 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223610 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10182565 035 $a(PQKB)11092305 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224194 035 $a(OCoLC)70743916 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30549 035 $a(DE-B1597)519287 035 $a(OCoLC)1100573702 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520936997 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224194 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10062317 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276285 035 $a(dli)HEB32137 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000202 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006184 100 $a20030304d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe political landscape $econstellations of authority in early complex polities /$fAdam T. Smith 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (349 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23749-8 311 0 $a0-520-23750-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-314) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Surveying the Political Landscape --$t1. Sublimated Spaces --$t2. Archaeologies of Political Authority --$t3. Geopolitics --$t4. Polities --$t5. Regimes --$t6. Institutions --$tConclusion: Toward a Cartography of Political Landscapes --$tReferences Cited --$tIndex 330 $aHow do landscapes-defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations-contribute to the making of politics? Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic, and artistic remains of early complex societies, this provocative and far-reaching book is the first systematic attempt to explain the links between spatial organization and politics from an anthropological point of view. The Classic-period Maya, the kingdom of Urartu, and the cities of early southern Mesopotamia provide the focal points for this multidimensional account of human polities. Are the cities and villages in which we live and work, the lands that are woven into our senses of cultural and personal identity, and the national territories we occupy merely stages on which historical processes and political rituals are enacted? Or do the forms of buildings and streets, the evocative sensibilities of architecture and vista, the aesthetics of place conjured in art and media constitute political landscapes-broad sets of spatial practices critical to the formation, operation, and overthrow of polities, regimes, and institutions? Smith brings together contemporary theoretical developments from geography and social theory with anthropological perspectives and archaeological data to pursue these questions. 517 3 $aConstellations of authority in early complex polities 606 $aPolitical anthropology 606 $aLandscape archaeology$xPolitical aspects 606 $aLandscape assessment 610 $aanthropological. 610 $aarchaeologists. 610 $aartistic works. 610 $aclassicists. 610 $acomplex societies. 610 $acultural identity. 610 $aearly societies. 610 $aepigraphs. 610 $aformation of governments. 610 $aformation of polities. 610 $amaya. 610 $anational territories. 610 $anations. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $aoverthrow of regimes. 610 $aphysical world. 610 $apolitical anthropology. 610 $apolitical formation. 610 $apolitical history. 610 $apolitical institutions. 610 $apolitical landscape. 610 $apolitical power. 610 $apolitical rituals. 610 $apolitical science. 610 $asocial theory. 610 $asystematic approach. 610 $atextbooks. 610 $aurartu. 615 0$aPolitical anthropology. 615 0$aLandscape archaeology$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aLandscape assessment. 676 $a306.2 700 $aSmith$b Adam T$0941492 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248285703316 996 $aThe political landscape$92316817 997 $aUNISA