Robb, John E. Visiting Scholar Conference (13th : 1996 : Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
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.
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 Mississippian polity / John F. Scarry -- Wampum: a material symbol of cultural value to the Iroquois peoples of northeastern North American / Gary S. Snyder -- Comparability, equivalency, and contestation / Michael Fotiadis -- Digging through material symbols / Alex W. Barker.
Series:
Occasional paper / Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale ; no. 26
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