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The political machine : assembling sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus / Adam T. Smith.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Smith, Adam T., author.
Contributor:
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
JSTOR (Online Service)
Series:
Rostovtzeff lectures
The Rostovtzeff lectures
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Material culture.
Caucasus, South--Antiquities.
Caucasus, South.
South Caucasus.
Antiquities.
Bronze age--Caucasus, South.
Bronze age.
Material culture--Political aspects--Caucasus, South.
Sovereignty.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 242 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
The Conditions of Sovereignty 4
Machine Politics 7
Bodies and Things 11
Into the Caucasus 16
Schematic 20
Part I The Machinery of Sovereignty
Chapter 1 On Assemblages and Machines 27
Things and Objects 29
The Exile of Things 33
Nature Morte 40
The Assemblage Assembled 43
The Efficacy of Machines 48
Sense. Sensibility, and Sentiment 54
Chapter 2 On the Matter of Sovereignty 59
Sovereignty Disassembled 61
Prehistory and the Political 64
Archaeologies of Sovereignty 67
Assembly and Assemblage 72
Origin Myths 73
Wayward Things and the Dual Sovereign 78
Exit Objects 1: Liberal Theory and Things 81
Exit Objects 2: Marx and Matter 83
Sovereign Matter, Governmental Machines 86
The Sovereign Conditions 91
Part II Assembling Sovereignty
Chapter 3 The Civilization Machine in the Early Bronze Age 97
The Kura-Araxes 102
Sensibility 105
Sense 110
Sentiment 122
An Early Bronze Age Public 125
Chapter 4 The War Machine in the Middle Bronze Age 127
The Caucasus in Transition 130
Sensibility 138
Sense 144
Sentiment 148
Territorialization and Contradiction 151
Chapter 5 The Political Machine in the Late Bronze Age 154
The Caucasus at the Beginning of the Late Bronze Age 157
Sensibility 165
Sense 171
Sentiment 178
The Enduring Political Machine 183
Conclusion 186
Erebuni-Yerevan 188
Brother Axe 194.
Notes:
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
1400866502
9781400866502
Publisher Number:
99978402614
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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