Against Typological Tyranny in Archaeology A South American Perspective /

The papers in this book question the tyranny of typological thinking in archaeology through case studies from various South American countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil) and Antarctica. They aim to show that typologies are unavoidable (they are, after all, the way to creat...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gnecco, Cristóbal (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Langebaek, Carl (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Against typological tyranny. Cristóbal Gnecco and Carl Langebaek
  • Social complexity in ancient Amerindian societies: perspectives from the Brazilian lowlands. Cristiana Barreto
  • Blind men and an elephant: exchange systems and sociopolitical organizations in the Orinoco basin and neighboring areas in pre-Hispanic times. Rafael Gassón
  • Palenques and palisades: a revision of social complexity issues in contact- period eastern Venezuela. Rodrigo Navarrete
  • Agricola est quem domus demonstrate. Alejandro Haber
  • Social space and the archaeology of inequality: insights into social differences at Ambato valley, southern Andes, Argentina. Andrés Laguens
  • Poor chiefs: corporate dimensions of pre-Inca society in the southern Andes. Axel Nielsen
  • Against the domain of master narratives: archaeology and Antarctic history. María Ximena Senatore and Andres Zarankin
  • Testing a model of site location in the Alto Magdalena, Colombia. Víctor González
  • Children of the creeks: cultural characterization of Nasa politics. Wilhelm Londoño
  • On hybrids recently unleashed. Cristóbal Gnecco
  • The role of place-making in chiefdom societies. Hope Henderson
  • Words, things and text: El Infiernito, archaeology, documents and ethnology in the study of Muisca society. Carl Henrik Langebaek.