I just got my reading list for the next two weeks of my Theory and Interpretation in Archaeology course.
Power, Authority & Domination
Brumfiel, E. 1998. Factional competition in complex society. In D. Miller, M. Rowlands, and C. Tilley
(eds.). Domination and Resistance. London: Unwin Hyman: 127‐137.
Meskell, L. 2001. Archaeologies of identity. In I. Hodder (ed.). Archaeological Theory Today.
Cambridge: Polity Press, 187‐213.
Miller, D. and Tilley, C. 1984. Ideology, power and prehistory: an introduction. In D. Miller and C.
Tilley (eds.). Ideology, Power and Prehistory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (see
also other chapters in this volume)
Wolf, E. 1990. Facing Power. American Anthropologist 92: 586‐596.
Ideology and Legitimacy
Eagleton, T. 1996. Ideology: An Introduction. London: Longman. (especially Chapter 1: What is
Ideology?)
DeMarrais, E. Castillo, L.J., and Earle, T. 1996. Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies.
Current Anthropology 37: 15‐31.
Johnson, M. 2010 (2nd edition) Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell. (Chapter
6: Thoughts and Ideologies)
Richards, J. and van Buren, M. (eds.). 2000. Order, Legitimacy and, Wealth in Ancient States.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (see especially Chapter 2).
McGuire, R.H. 1992 A Marxist archaeology. London: Academic Press. (Chapters 4 and 5)
Scott, J.C. 1990 Domination and the Arts of Resistance – Hidden Transcripts. New Have: Yale
University Press. (Chapter 4)
Domination and Resistance
Given, M. 2004 The Archaeology of the Colonized. London: Routledge.
Miller, D., Rowlands, M. and Tilley, C. (eds.). 1989. Domination and Resistance. London: Unwin
Hyman. (especially chapters 1 and 2).
McGuire, R.H. and Paynter, R. (eds.). 1991. The Archaeology of Inequality. Oxford: Blackwell.
Paynter, R. 1989. The archaeology of equality and inequality. Annual Review of Anthropology 18:
369‐399.
Scott, J.C. 1990 Domination and the Arts of Resistance – Hidden Transcripts. New Have: Yale
University Press. (Chapter 2)
With the following case studies.
Lecture 1: Power, Authority and Domination
Expressions of royal power in ancient Mesopotamia:
Dickson, B.D. 2006. Public transcripts expressed in theatres of cruelty: the Royal Graves at Ur in
Mesopotamia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 16(2): 123‐44.
The Imperial Roman landscape:
Given, M. 2004 The Archaeology of the Colonized. London: Routledge. (Chapter 4: The Settlement of
Empire).
Urban planning in the US:
Leone, M.P. and Hurry, S.D. 1998. Seeing: The power of town planning in the Chesapeake. Journal of
Historical Archaeology 32(4): 34‐62.
Lecture 2: Ideology and Legitimacy
Ideology in ancient Near Eastern sculptures:
Ross, J.C. 2005. Representations, Reality, and Ideology. In S. Pollock and R. Bernbeck (ed.).
Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives. London: Blackwell, 327‐350.
Ideology and textiles in colonial Oceania:
Thomas, N. 2002. Colonizing cloth: interpreting the material culture of nineteenth‐century Oceania.
In C.L. Lyons and J.K. Papadopoulos (eds.). The Archaeology of Colonialism. Los Angeles: Getty
Publications, 182‐199.
The William Paca Garden, Annapolis, Maryland:
Leone, M.P. 1984 ‘Interpreting ideology in historical archaeology: using the rules of perspective in
the William Paca garden in Annapolis, Maryland’, in Tilley, C & Miller, D (eds) Ideology, power
and prehistory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 25‐35. [this paper is also reprinted in
Orser, C E (ed.) 1996 Images of the Recent Past. California: Altamira, 371‐391]
Lecture 3: Resistance, Struggle and Negotiation
Mobility and resistance in Late Bronze Age Anatolia:
Glatz, C. and Matthews, R. 2005. Anthropology of a frontier zone: Hittite‐Kaska relations in Late
Bronze Age north‐central Anatolia. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 339:
47‐65. [online journal]
Farmer revolts in medieval India:
Morrison, K.D. 2001. Coercion, resistance, and hierarchy: local processes and imperial strategies in
the Vijayanagara empire. In S. Alcock, T.N. D’Altroy, K.D. Morrison and C.M. Sinopoli (eds.).
Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
252‐278.
Hidden activities and resistance:
Casella, E.C. 2001. Landscapes of punishment and resistance: A female convict settlement in
Tasmania, Australia. In B. Bender and M. Winer (eds.). Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile
and Place. Oxford: Berg, 103‐120.
Plus reading
Brumfiel, E. 1998. Huitzilopochtli’s conquest: Aztec ideology in the archaeological record. Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 8(1): 3‐13.
and
Joyce, A.A., Bustamante, L.A. and Levine, M.N. 2001. Commoner power: A case study from the Classic
Period collapse on the Oaxaca coast. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 8(4): 343‐385.
For a seminar on negotiating social relationships.
Happy, this makes me it. 🙂
