Social Transformations in Archaeology: Global and Local Perspectives

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ISBN: 9780415067898 | 0415067898
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/16/1998

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Social Transformations in Archaeologyexplores the relevance of archaeology to the study of long term change and to the understandings of our contemporary world.

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Introduction	p. 1
Conceptualising social transformation	p. 27
Objectivity and subjectivity in archaeology	p. 29
Materialism and multilinear evolution	p. 40
Conceptualising the European Bronze and Early Iron Ages	p. 49
The formation of tribal systems in northern Europe, 4000-500 BC	p. 70
From stone to bronze: the evolution of social complexity in northern Europe, 2300-1200 BC	p. 106
Kinship, alliance and exchange in the European Bronze Age	p. 142
The consumption of wealth in Bronze Age Denmark: a study in the dynamic of economic processes in tribal societies	p. 183
Centre-periphery relations	p. 217
Centre and periphery: a review of a concept	p. 219
Chiefdoms, states and systems of social evolution	p. 243
Centre and periphery in Bronze Age Scandinavia	p. 268
The emergence of the European world system in the Bronze Age: divergence, convergence and social evolution during the first and second millennia BC in Europe	p. 287
Contact and colonialism	p. 325
The archaeology of colonialism	p. 327
The internal structure and regional context of Early Iron Age society in south-western Germany	p. 334
The archaeology of colonialism and constituting the African peasantry	p. 375
Ritual killing and historical transformation in a West African kingdom	p. 397
The embodiment of sacred power in the Cameroon Grassfields	p. 410
Index	p. 429
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