Agency and identity in the ancient Near East
Subtitle: new paths forward
By: edited by Sharon R. Steadman and Jennifer C. Ross.
Contributors: Steadman, Sharon R.; Ross, Jennifer C.
Series: Approaches to anthropological archaeology
Publisher: Equinox Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781845534431
Subjects: Social archaeology -- Middle East; Agent (Philosophy) -- History; Identity (Psychology) -- Middle East -- History; Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- History; Land settlement -- Middle East -- History; Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- History; Material culture -- Middle East -- History; Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- History; Archaeology -- Philosophy; Middle East -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Agency and identity in the ancient Near East : new paths forward / Sharon R. Steadman and Jennifer C. Ross; title: The agency of place; title: Movement across the landscape and residential stability : agency and place in the southern Levantine early Bronze Age / Jennifer Jones; title: Agency, architecture, and archaeology : prehistoric settlements in central Anatolia / Sharon R. Steadman; title: Agents in motion / Scott Branting; title: The agency of daily practice; title: Subsistence actions at Çatalhöyük / Rissa Russell and Amy Bogaard; title: The scribal artifact : technological innovation in the Uruk period / Jennifer C. Ross; title: Shared painting? : the practice of decorating late Neolithic pottery in northern Mesopotamia / Gabriela Castro; title: Early Islamic pottery : evidence of a revolution in diet and dining habits? / Jodi Magness; title: The agency of power; title: Material culture and identity : Assyrians, Aramaeans, and the indigenous peoples of Iron Age southeastern Anatolia / Timothy Matney; title: Object agency? : spatial perspective, social relations, and the stele of Hammurabi / Marian Feldman; title: Akkad and agency, archaeology and annales : considering power and intent in third millennium BCE Mesopotamia / Anne Porter; title: Agency, identity, and the Hittite state / Gregory McMahon; title: Beyond agency; title: Beyond agency : identity and individuals in archaeology / A. Bernard Knapp.