The Archaeology of Rank (Paperback, New ed)

Social archaeology is concerned with how one might use the archaeological record of the present to elucidate how social interactions were ordered in a past society. This requires a meaningful model of society, considerable archaeological data, and a reliable connection between them. A major goal of this book is to improve our understanding of one aspect of social archaeology, the inference of status hierarchy. The first section covers what is involved in social inference, and presents ideas on how it may be done reliably. In the following section, the typological models of Elman Service and Morton Fried are used to clarify certain aspects of ranking. The final section draws together a number of insights concerning the recognition of status inequality. These approaches are given systematic arrangement and evaluated in light of the model of social inference. This arrangement clarifies how they relate to each other, making it easier to see how they may be applied in varied real contexts, and stimulates new ideas for more correlations of ranking.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Studies in Archaeology
Release date:	November 2004
First published:	1994
Authors:	Paul K. Wason
Dimensions:	247 x 189 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	207
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-61200-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN:	0-521-61200-4
Barcode:	9780521612005

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