17 records matched your query       

Title:

Archaeology of performance : theaters of power, community, and politics / edited by Takeshi Inomata and Lawrence S. Coben.

Publisher:

AltaMira Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

viii, 339 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Social archaeology
Theater and society
Theater--History--To 500
Performing Arts--Social aspects.

Other Authors:

Inomata, Takeshi, 1961-
Coben, Lawrence S.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Behind the scenes : producing the performance / Lawrence S. Coben and Takeshi Inomata -- Overture : an invitation to the archaeological theater / Takeshi Inomata and Lawrence S. Coben -- "The Indians were much given to their taquis" : drumming and generative categories in ancient Andean funerary processions / Jerry D. Moore -- The spectacle of daily performance at ©atal©œhy©ơk / Ian Hodder -- Representational aesthetics and political subjectivity : the spectacular in Urartian images of performance / Adam T. Smith -- Impersonation, dance, and the problem of spectacle among the classic Maya / Stephen D. Houston -- Dancing gods : ritual, performance, and political organization in the prehistoric Southwest / Daniela Triadan -- Politics and theatricality in Mayan society / Takeshi Inomata -- Other Cuzcos : replicated theaters of Inka power / Lawrence S. Coben -- Public ceremonial performance in ancient Egypt : exclusion and integration / John Baines -- Visible and vocal : sovereigns of the early Merina (Madagascar) state / Susan Kus and Victor Raharijaona.

Series:

Archaeology in society series

ISBN:

9780759108776
0759108773 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780759108769
0759108765 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61362733

LCCN:

2005024190

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)