| The Archaeology of Rank Contributor(s): Wason, Paul K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521612004 ISBN-13: 9780521612005 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2004 Annotation: Social archaeology is concerned with how one might use the archaeological record of the present to elucidate how social interactions were ordered in a past society. This requires a meaningful model of society, considerable archaeological data, and a reliable connection between them. A major goal of this book is to improve our understanding of one aspect of social archaeology, the inference of status hierarchy. The first section covers what is involved in social inference, and presents ideas on how it may be done reliably. In the following section, the typological models of Elman Service and Morton Fried are used to clarify certain aspects of ranking. The final section draws together a number of insights concerning the recognition of status inequality. These approaches are given systematic arrangement and evaluated in light of the model of social inference. This arrangement clarifies how they relate to each other, making it easier to see how they may be applied in varied real contexts, and stimulates new ideas for more correlations of ranking. Click for more in this series: New Studies in Archaeology |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Ancient - General |
| Dewey: 930.1 |
| LCCN: 2005273767 |
| Series: New Studies in Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" L (0.90 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Features: Bibliography, Index |
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