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Sep 4, 2011 10:33 PM

The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies

by Michael E. Smith

My new edited volume, The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies, was released last week! I got my copies in the mail on Friday, and they look great. Based on a conference at the very nice Amerind Foundation in spring 2008, the chapters are a selection of case studies showing how to do rigorous comparative analysis with archaeological data. Chapter 1 is a group statement or manifesto by all participants on the importance of comparative analysis in contemporary archaeology. (You can read this statement here.). The book is not a textbook, and we don't offer a unified set of methods that we advocate for others to adopt. Rather, we base our examples on several principles (e.g., it is best to compare primary archaeological data, rather than comparing the interpretations of diverse archaeologists about their data), and make our argument through the case studies themselves.

One of the ulterior motives for the conference and book is to re-invigorate the use of rigorous comparative methods in archaeology. Comparative analysis was one of the casualties of postmodern archaeology, and as archaeologists with a scientific approach we are asserting the primacy of comparison to a rigorous explanatory archaeology.

Here is the table of contents:

1. Comparative Archaeology: ACommitment to Understanding Variation

Groupstatement by all contributors

2. Approaches to ComparativeAnalysis in Archaeology

Michael E. Smith and Peter Peregrine

3. Comparative Frames for theDiachronic Analysis of Complex Societies: Next Steps

GaryM. Feinman

4. What It Takes to Get Complex: Food,Goods, and Work as Shared Cultural Ideals from

theBeginning of Sedentism

MonicaL. Smith

5. Challenges for ComparativeStudy of Early Complex Societies

RobertD. Drennan and Christian E. Peterson

6. Patterned Variation inRegional Trajectories of Community Growth

ChristianE. Peterson and Robert D.Drennan

7. The Genesis of Monuments inIsland Societies

MichaelJ. Kolb

8. Power and Legitimation:Political Strategies, Typology, and Cultural Evolution

PeterPeregrine

9. The Strategies of Provincialsin Empires

BarbaraL. Stark and John K. Chance

10. Households, Economies, andPower in the Aztec and Inka Imperial Provinces

TimothyEarle and Michael E. Smith

11. Low-Density, Agrarian-BasedUrbanism: Scale, Power and Ecology

RolandFletcher

12. Archaeology, Early ComplexSocieties, and Comparative Social Science History

MichaelE. Smith

Index

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از طریق لینک ارائه شده می توانید کتاب زیر را بارگیری کنید.

Potts, Daniel T., and Kourosh Roustaei (eds.)

2006 The Mamasani Archaeological Project: Stage One, A Report on the First Two Seasons of the ICAR-University of Sydney Expedition to the Mamasani District, Fars Province, Iran. Tehran: Iranian Center for Archaeological Research.

لینک: http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/mamasani/map-stage-1.html

(با سپاس از آقای فریدون بیگلری برای در اختیار گذاشتن لینک)