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Material symbols : culture and economy in prehistory / edited by John E. Robb.
Penn Museum Library CC72.4 .M38 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Annual Visiting Scholar Conference (13th : 1996 : Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
- Series:
- Occasional paper (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations) ; no. 26.
- Occasional paper / Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale ; no. 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social archaeology--Congresses.
- Social archaeology.
- Ethnoarchaeology--Congresses.
- Ethnoarchaeology.
- Material culture--Congresses.
- Material culture.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric--Congresses.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric.
- Symbolism--Congresses.
- Symbolism.
- Economics, Prehistoric--Congresses.
- Economics, Prehistoric.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- x, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale, IL. : Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, [1999]
- Contents:
- Secret agents: culture, economy, and social reproduction / John E. Robb
- Structure, agency, and the locus of the social: why poststructural theory is good for archaeology / John C. McCall
- On the genesis of value in early hierarchical societies / Richard Lesure
- Why Maya lords sat on jaguar thrones / Mary W. Helms
- An economy of substances in earlier neolithic Britain / Julian Thomas
- Structure strikes back: intuitive meanings of ceramics from Qale Rostam, Iran / Reinhard Bernbeck
- Marking territory, making territory: burial mounds in interior Virginia / Gary H. Dunham
- Prestige, agency, and change in middle-range societies / Dean J. Saitta
- Symbolic dimensions of animals and meat at Opovo, Yugoslavia / Nerissa Russell
- Symbolic artifacts and spheres of meaning: groundstone tools from copper age Portugal / Katrina T. Lillios
- Tradition, community, and Nilgiri rock art / Allen Zagarell
- Metals, symbols, and society in bronze age Denmark / Janet E. Levy
- Olmec thrones as ancestral altars: the two sides of power / Susan D. Gillespie
- Multiple sources of prestige and the social evaluation of women in prehispanic Mesoamerica / Julia A. Hendon
- The value of tradition: the development of social identities in early Mesopotamian states / Geoff Emberling
- Representations of hegemony as community at Cahokia / Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E. Emerson
- Material symbols among the precolonial Swahili of the East African coast / Chapurukha M. Kusimba
- Elite identities in Apalachee Province: the construction of identity and cultural change in a Missis
- Notes:
- "Based on papers presented at the Center for Archaeological Investigation's Thirteenth Annual Visiting Scholar Conference, held March 30-31, 1996, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale"--P. x.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0881040835
- OCLC:
- 41561725
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