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Violence and inequality : an archaeological history /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Leppard, Thomas P. (Editor), Murray, Sarah (Sarah C.) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Denver : University Press of Colorado, [2023]
Subjects:
Violence > History.
Violence > Social aspects.
Violence > Religious aspects.
Equality > History.
Equality > Social aspects.
Equality > Religious aspects.
Warfare, Prehistoric.
Social archaeology.
Prehistoric peoples.
Violence > Histoire.
Violence > Aspect social.
Violence > Aspect religieux.
Égalité (Sociologie) > Aspect religieux.
Guerre préhistorique.
Archéologie sociale.
Equality
Equality > Religious aspects
Equality > Social aspects
Prehistoric peoples
Social archaeology
Violence
Violence > Religious aspects
Violence > Social aspects
Warfare, Prehistoric
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Coercion, violence, and inequality in archaeological perspective / Sarah C. Murray (University of Toronto) and Thomas P. Leppard (Florida State University)
  • Violence as a commons problem / Roderick Campbell (New York University)
  • Monopolizing the means of predation : the origins of the Andean Sacrifice State / Darryl Wilkinson (Dartmouth College)
  • Arenas of alterity and the aesthetics of religious violence / Edward Swenson (University of Toronto)
  • Inequality at Chaco Canyon (900-1150 CE) : creating subordinates through coercion and fear or ideology and cohesion / Ryan P. Harrod (Garrett College and University of Alaska Anchorage) and Debra L. Martin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
  • Seeing socially sanctioned violence : insights from an archaeology of visibility / Brenna R. Hassett (University College London)
  • Animals, violence, and inequality in Ancient Mesopotamia / Laerke Recht (University of Cambridge)
  • The violence inherent in (creating) the system : inequality, violence, and human sacrifice in Ancient Egypt / Roselyn A. Campbell (Getty Research Institute)
  • Embodied inequality : skeletal evidence of colonization in Roman Britain / Robert P. Stephan (University of Arizona)
  • The many dimensions of violence and inequality / Thomas P. Leppard (Florida State University) and Sarah C. Murray (University of Toronto)