"This highly original and challenging book defies every easy form
of classification. Ostensibly about early polities, its penetrating
and erudite asides extend with equal facility into contemporary
politics and the symmetrical deficiencies of modernism and
postmodernism. To my knowledge, imaginative reflections of spatial
representations have never previously found their way into the
theoretical base of what has been thought of as an essentially
materialistic archaeological science. It is a pleasure and a
discovery to see the permanent and rightful place Adam Smith has
now fashioned for them."--Robert McC. Adams, Secretary Emeritus,
The Smithsonian Institution
"If social theory in cultural anthropology was transformed in
the last decades by a "linguistic turn," research by archaeologists
into the development and practices of early states now seems to be
undergoing a "geographic turn." Adam Smith's book, although drawing
from modern currents in geography, anthropology, sociology, and
political philosophy, brings original archaeological contributions
to social theory by examining the making and re-making of
landscapes in early complex polities (especially in Mesopotamian,
Urartian, and Maya states). Smith observes these (and other) early
states as "political landscapes," in which monuments come to
constitute authority and shape memories. Smith's book represents a
comprehensive turn from metahistorical reifications of the state to
investigations of how the content of social roles was determined
through the production of landscapes. The landscape of archaeology
will be changed decisively by this book."--Norman Yoffee,
Professor, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies and Dept. of
Anthropology,University of Michigan.
"This book emerges as both a remarkable scholarly achievement
and something of a manifesto for contemporary political thinking
and engagement."--Susan E. Alcock, author of "Archaeologies of the
Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories
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