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Life at the margins of the state : comparative landscapes from the old and new worlds / edited by Alicia M. Boswell and Kyle A. Knabb.

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Book
Contributor:
Boswell, Alicia M., editor.
Knabb, Kyle A., editor.
JSTOR (Online Service)
Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Indigenous peoples--Political aspects.
Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.
State, The.
Civilization, Ancient.
Excavations (Archaeology).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 250 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps
Place of Publication:
Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2022]
Contents:
Introduction to life at the Margins / Bradley J. Parker, Alicia M. Boswell, and Kyle A. Knabb
Avoiding "State-ness" in Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) southern Jordan : settlement patterns from marginal landscapes associated with autonomous social organization / Kyle A. Knabb
A marginal yet essential landscape : Collambay in the margins of the Chimú Empire / Alicia Boswell
The pot's gone cold : reconsidering the development of social complexity in medieval Iceland / Tara D. Carter
Refuge, frontier, and citadel : mojos as a political landscape / John H. Walker
"Tierras de ningún provecho" : eastern El Salvador, colonialism, and the myth of emptiness / Esteban Gómez
Beyond the periphery : comparing complexities in southern California / Erin M. Smith and Mikael Fauvelle
Incorporating the hinterlands : defining social identity in the Maya mountains region, southern Belize / Claire Novotny
(Un)becoming states : their neighbors and the Wandala South of Lake Chad / Scott MacEachern
The southern periphery of Egypt in the Predynastic period : Nubia in the fifth and fourth millennium BC / Elena A.A. Garcea
Epilogue : borderlandscapes / Bradley J. Parker.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 15, 2022).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Other Format:
Print version: Life at the margins of the state
ISBN:
9781646422951
1646422953
Publisher Number:
40031346834
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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