Nathan Schlanger

Marcel Mauss

L'apport de Mauss à l'étude des techniques a inscrit la technologie au coeur des sciences humaines et sociales. Pour la première fois en langue française, ce volume rassemble l'essentiel des écrits de Mauss dans ce domaine - dont "Les techniques du corps" et l'"Essai sur les variations saisonnières" -, présenté de manière lumineuse par Nathan Schlanger, archéologue, technologue et historien des sciences sociales à l'INRAP.

Techniques, technologie et civilisation

Francoise Audouze

John Disney Professor of Archaeology Cyprian Broodbank

Colin Renfrew

Timothy Taylor

Professor of Anthropology Norman Yoffee

Wendy Ashmore

Andrew Sherratt

Professor of Archaeology Tim Murray

Timothy K. Earle

Elizabeth M. Brumfiel

This book, a comparative study of specialised production in prehistoric societies, examines approaches to specialization and exchange.

Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies

Jonathan Haas

Shelia Pozorski

Thomas Pozorski

This volume brings together research on the evolution of civilisation in the Andean region of South America from the work of sixteen leading scholars, at one time actively engaged in fieldwork in Peru. Beginning with early chiefdom societies living along the Peruvian coast 2000 years before Christ, the authors trace the growing complexity of Andean states and empires over the next 3000 years. They examine the accomplishments of the ancient Andeans in the rise of magnificent monumental architecture and the construction of unparalleled prehistoric irrigation systems. They also look at the dominant role of warfare in Andean societies and at the collapse of empires in the millennia before the arrival of the Spanish in 1534. Together, the contributors provide the first systematic study of the evolution of polities along the dry coastal plains and high mountain valleys of the Peruvian Andes.

The Origins and Development of the Andean State

Jarl Nordbladh

In line with the resurgence of interest in the history of archaeology manifested over the past decade, this volume aims to highlight state-of-the art research across several topics and areas, and to stimulate new approaches and studies in the field. With their shared historiographical commitment, the authors, leading scholars and emerging researchers, draw from a wide range of case studies to address major themes such as historical sources and methods; questions of archaeological practices and the practical aspects of knowledge production; 'visualizing archaeology' and the multiple roles of iconography and imagery; and 'questions of identity' at local, national and international levels.

Archaeology in the Light of its History

Archives, Ancestors, Practices

Susan Kent

Farmers as hunters analyses from an essentially ethnographic perspective the role of hunters in small-scale farming societies. The twelve contributors examine the effects of hunting and mobility on behaviour, diet, economy and material culture at both culture-specific and cross-cultural levels. The influence of sedentism and the increasing use of domesticates is also explored across a wide range of societies from the American southwest and Amazonian to Africa, New Guinea and the Phillipines. Differing perceptions of the status of animals and plants are reviewed and cultural values are throughout given due weight in a field where discussion too often verges on the economically deterministic.

The Implications of Sedentism

Farmers as Hunters

Nathan Schlanger

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