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"Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities. The authors provide a global range of case st...

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Other Authors: McCarty, Sue Ann (Editor), Arbuckle, Benjamin S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social archaeology.
Human-animal relationships.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Equality.
Civilization, Ancient.
Animals > Social aspects.
Animals and civilization.
Civilization, Classical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
ethnoarchaeology.
Civilisation ancienne.
Ethnoarcheologie.
Archeologie sociale.
Equality > History > To 1500.
Human-animal relationships > History > To 1500.
Animals > Social aspects > History > To 1500.
Animals and civilization > History > To 1500.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World : An Introduction / Benjamin Arbuckle and Sue Ann McCarty
  • Chapter 1. Animals and the State : The Role of Animals in State-Level Rituals in Mesoamerica / Nawa Sugiyama, Gilberto Perez, Bernardo Rodríguez, Fabiola Torres, and Raúl Valadez
  • Chapter 2. Entering the Underworld : Animal Offerings at the foot of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan / Leonardo López Luján, Ximena Chávez Balderas, Belem Zúñiga-Arellano, Alejandra Aguirre Molina, and Norma Valentín Maldonado
  • Chapter 3. The Luxury of Variety : Animals and Social Distinction at the Wari site of Cerro Baúl, Southern Peru / Susan D. deFrance
  • Chapter 4. Shifting Patterns of Maya Social Complexity Through Time : Preliminary Zooarchaeological Results From San Bartolo, Guatemala / Ashley E. Sharpe, William A. Saturno, and Kitty F. Emery
  • Chapter 5. Animals as Symbols, Animals as Resources : The Elite Faunal Record in the Mississippian World / H. Edwin Jackson
  • Chapter 6. The Parrots of Paquime : a Look at the Role of Aviculture in Thirteenth Century Northern Mexico / Abigail Holeman
  • Chapter 7. Ritual, Cuisine, and Commensal Politics at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico / Adam S. Watson
  • Chapter 8. Pelts and Provisions : Faunal Remains and the Emergence of Social Inequality in Central Coastal California / Charlotte K. Sunseri
  • Chapter 9. Animals and Social Change : A Case of the Middle Neolithic in the North European Plain / Arkadiusz Marciniak
  • Chapter 10. Inequality and the Origins of Wool Production in Central Anatolia / Benjamin S. Arbuckle
  • Chapter 11. Tracing Inequality from Assur to Kültepe/Kanesh : Merchants, Donkeys, and Clay Tablets / Levent Atici
  • Chapter 12. Animal, Human, God : Pathways of Shang Animality and Divinity / Roderick Campbell
  • Chapter 13. Inequality on the surface : Horses, power, and community in the Mongolian Bronze Age / Joshua Wright
  • Chapter 14. Pythons, Pigs, and Political Process in the Hueda Kingdom, Benin, West African A.D. 1650-1727 / Neil L. Norman
  • Chapter 15. "Tails" of Romanization : Animals and Inequality in the Roman Mediterranean Context / Michael MacKinnon
  • Chapter 16. Wool Production, Wealth and Trade in Middle Saxon England / Pam J. Crabtree and Douglas V. Campana
  • Chapter 17. The Rhetoric of Meat Apportionment : Evidence for Exclusion, Inclusion and Social Position in Medieval England / Naomi Sykes.

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