TY - BOOK AU - Adam T Smith AU - Adam T Smith TI - The political landscape: : constellations of authority in early complex polities SN - 9780520237506 U1 - 306.2 SMI PY - 2003/// CY - Berkeley PB - : University of California Press KW - Social Sciences KW - Political anthropology KW - Landscape assessment N1 - List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Surveying the Political Landscape 1. Sublimated Spaces 2. Archaeologies of Political Authority 3. Geopolitics 4. Polities 5. Regimes 6. Institutions Conclusion: Toward a Cartography of Political Landscapes References Cited Index N2 - Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic, and artistic remains of early complex societies, this title explains the links between spatial organization and politics from an anthropological point of view. It brings together contemporary theoretical developments from geography and social theory with anthropological perspectives ER -