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020			_a9781443830041
028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No.-4405/2. _c: 119858 _d: 16/11/2023
082			_a306.2 JOH
100			_aJohanson, Peter G.
245			_aThe archaeology of politics _b: the materiality of political practice and action in the past. _c/Andrew M. Bauer.
260			_a, U K _b: Cambridge Scholars Pub _c, 2011
300			_axiii,368p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b3458
520			_aThe Archaeology of Politics is a collection of essays that examines political action and practice in the past through studies and analyses of material culture from the perspective of anthropological archaeology. Contributors to this volume explore a variety of multi-scalar relationships between past peoples, places, objects and environments. At stake in this volume is what it is that constitutes politics, its social and cultural location, fields of analysis, its materiality and sociology and especially its position and possibilities as a conceptual and analytical category in archaeological investigations of past socio-cultural worlds. Our primary goals are twofold: the problematization and re-conceptualization of politics from its understanding as a reified essence or structure of political forms (e.g., a State) to a fluid, dynamic and culturally inflected set of practices; and, second, to consider politicsâ entanglement with the materiality of socio-cultural worlds at multiple-scales through the demonstration of innovative analytical approaches to the material record. The volume is a tightly integrated group of essays exploring an assortment of case studies that offer new theoretical insight to archaeological and historical analyses of politics
650			_a Archaeology
650			_aPolitical sociology
650			_aSocial archaeology
650			_aSociologie politique
700			_aPeter G. Johanson
942			_cBOOK
999			_c61258 _d61258