Archaeology of Performance Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics

by Inomata, Takeshi; Coben, Lawrence S.; Baines, John; Hodder, Ian; Houston, Stephen D.; Kus, Susan; Moore, Jerry D.; Raharijaona, Victor; Smith, Adam T.; Triadan, Daniela

• ISBN13: 9780759108769
• ISBN10: 0759108765
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-09
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Collection of original articles exploring theatricality in the ancient world and how it affected social life and politics.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	vii
PROLOGUE
PROLOGUE Behind the Scenes: Producing the Performance	3	(8)
Lawrence S. Coben and Takeshi Inomata
ACT I CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES
SCENE 1 Overture: An Invitation to the Archaeological Theater	11	(36)
Takeshi Inomata and Lawrence S. Coben
ACT II SENSES, SPECTACLE, AND PERFORMANCE
SCENE 2 "The Indians Were Much Given to Their Taquis": Drumming and Generative Categories in Ancient Andean Funerary Processions	47	(34)
Jerry D. Moore
SCENE 3 The Spectacle of Daily Performance at CatalhOyiik	81	(22)
Ian Hodder
SCENE 4 Representational Aesthetics and Political Subjectivity: The Spectacular in Urartian Images of Performance	103	(32)
Adam T. Smith
SCENE 5 Impersonation, Dance, and the Problem of Spectacle among the Classic Maya	135	(24)
Stephen D. Houston
ACT III PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF POWER AND COMMUNITY
SCENE 6 Dancing Gods: Ritual, Performance, and Political Organization in the Prehistoric Southwest	159	(28)
Daniela Triadan
SCENE 7 Politics and Theatricality in Mayan Society	187	(36)
Takeshi Inomata
SCENE 8 Other Cuzcos: Replicated Theaters of Inka Power	223	(38)
Lawrence S. Coben
SCENE 9 Public Ceremonial Performance in Ancient Egypt: Exclusion and Integration	261	(42)
John Baines
SCENE 10 Visible and Vocal: Sovereigns of the Early Merina (Madagascar) State	303	(28)
Susan Kus and Victor Raharijaona
Index	331	(6)
About the Contributors	337