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Archaeology of Performance: Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics

Archaeology of Performance: Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics

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Series: Archaeology in Society

Archaeology

ISBN10: 0759108773
ISBN13: 9780759108776
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: Mar 3 2006
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.92
Language: English
Performances in the premodern communities shaped identities, created meanings, generated and maintained political control. But unlike other social scientists, archaeologists have not worked much with these concepts. Archaeology of Performance shows how the notions of theatricality and spectacle are as important economics and politics in understanding how ancient communities work. Without sacrificing conceptual rigor, the contributors draw on the wide-ranging literature on performance. Without sacrificing material evidence, they try to see how performance creates meaning and ideology. Drawing on evidence from societies large and small, Archaeology of Performance offers an important new ways of understanding ancient theaters of power.

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