Social Theory in Archaeology and Ancient History : The Present and Future of Counternarratives (Hardcover)

1. Counter-narratives: the archaeology of the long-term and the large-scale Geoff Emberling; 2. Social evolutionary theory and the fifth continent: history without transformation? Tim Murray; 3. Structures of authority: feasting and political practice in the earliest Mesopotamian states Geoff Emberling; 4. Counter-narratives and counter-intuition: accommodating the unpredicted in the archaeology of complexity Steven E. Falconer; 5. Inscribing legitimacy and building power in the Mekong Delta Miriam T. Stark; 6. The city in the state Carla M. Sinopoli and Uthara Suvrathan; 7. Cities and ideology: the case of Assur in the Neo-Assyrian period Peter Machinist; 8. City and countryside, image and text: balancing rural and urban values in third millennium Egypt John Baines; 9. Local courts in centralizing states: the case of Ur III Mesopotamia Laura Culbertson; 10. Writing collapse Severin Fowles; 11. Objects in crisis: curation, repair, and the historicity of things in the South Caucasus (1500?300 BC) Adam T. Smith and Lori Khatchadourian; 12. Leaving classic Maya cities: agent-based modeling and the dynamics of diaspora Patricia A. McAnany, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Maxime Lamoureux St-Hilaire and Gyles Iannone; 13. Settling on the ruins of Xia: archaeology of social memory in early China Li Min; 14. Anti-history Shannon Lee Dawdy; 15. The present and future of counter-narratives Norman Yoffee.