Animals and inequality in the ancient world /

Animals and inequality in the ancient world / / edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty.

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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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Arbuckle, Benjamin S.,
McCarty, Sue Ann,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder, Colorado : : University Press of Colorado,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (411 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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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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