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1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
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 A. Gassón -- Palenques and Palisades: A Revision of Social Complexity Issues in Contact-Period Eastern Venezuela / Rodrigo Navarrete -- Agricola est quem domus demonstrat / Alejandro F. 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 E. Nielsen -- Against the Domain of Master Narratives: Archaeology and Antarctic History / Maria Ximena Senatore, Andrés Zarankin -- Testing a Model of Site Location in the Alto Magdalena, Colombia / Víctor González Fernández -- 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 |
Summary |
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 create networks that give meanings to symbols) but that their tyranny can be overcome if they are used from a critical, heuristic and non-prescriptive stance: critical because the complacent attitude towards their tyranny is replaced by a militant stance against it; heuristic because they are used as mea |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Indians of South America -- Antiquities.
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Social archaeology -- South America -- Philosophy
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Social structure -- South America -- History
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Archaeology -- South America -- Philosophy
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology -- Philosophy
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Indians of South America -- Antiquities
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Social archaeology -- Philosophy
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Social structure
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SUBJECT |
South America -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006293
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South America
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Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Gnecco, Cristóbal.
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Langebaek, Carl Henrik.
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ISBN |
9781461487241 |
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1461487242 |
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9781461487234 |
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1461487234 |
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