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"This book offers a global perspective on the role food has played in shaping human societies, through both individual and collective identities. It integrates ethnographic and archaeological case studies from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Classic Maya, the Inka and many other periods and regions, to ask how the meal in particular has acted as a social agent in the formation of society, economy, culture and identity. Drawing on a range of social theorists, Hastorf provides a theoretical toolkit essential for any archaeologist interested in foodways. Studying the social life of food, this book engages with taste, practice, the meal and the body to discuss power, identity, gender and meaning that creates our world as it created past societies"--Bookdepository.com

Since the creation of the School of Anthropology at the Central University of Venezuela, in the 1950's, research has begun to be conducted by Venezuelans coming from that Center. We have, from now on, two tendencies: the first one is composed by researchers who keep using the North-American paradigm; the second one is more critical, aimed at analyzing the past's social-historical contexts. The social archaeology that has been practiced, since the end of the 1960's, shares the same theoretical position, which affirms the existence of an archaeological science of society, its development and transformations, as a subject matter of knowledge. This theoretical position is based, in a very explicitly way, on an ethical posture that implies in assuming a political compromise with the studied society. ; A partir de la década de los cincuenta, con la creación de la escuela de Antropología de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, las investigaciones comienzan a ser llevadas a cabo por venezolanos egresados de dicho centro, donde se generan dos tendencias: una constituida por aquellos que continúan empleando el paradigma norteamericano, y otra más crítica, orientada hacia el análisis de los contextos socio históricos del pasado. La arqueología social que ha venido practicando desde finales de la década de los sesenta comparte una misma posición teórica que afirma la existencia para la ciencia arqueológica de la sociedad, su desarrollo y transformaciones, en tanto objeto de conocimiento. Esta posición teórica se plantea, de manera explicita, una postura ética que implica asumir un compromiso político con la sociedad en estudio. ; A partir de la década de los cincuenta, con la creación de la escuela de Antropología de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, las investigaciones comienzan a ser llevadas a cabo por venezolanos egresados de dicho centro, donde se generan dos tendencias: una constituida por aquellos que continúan empleando el paradigma norteamericano, y otra más crítica, orientada hacia el análisis de los contextos socio históricos del pasado. La arqueología social que ha venido practicando desde finales de la década de los sesenta comparte una misma posición teórica que afirma la existencia para la ciencia arqueológica de la sociedad, su desarrollo y transformaciones, en tanto objeto de conocimiento. Esta posición teórica se plantea, de manera explicita, una postura ética que implica asumir un compromiso político con la sociedad en estudio. ; A partir de la década de los cincuenta, con la creación de la escuela de Antropología de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, las investigaciones comienzan a ser llevadas a cabo por venezolanos egresados de dicho centro, donde se generan dos tendencias: una constituida por aquellos que continúan empleando el paradigma norteamericano, y otra más crítica, orientada hacia el análisis de los contextos socio históricos del pasado. La arqueología social que ha venido practicando desde finales de la década de los sesenta comparte una misma posición teórica que afirma la existencia para la ciencia arqueológica de la sociedad, su desarrollo y transformaciones, en tanto objeto de conocimiento. Esta posición teórica se plantea, de manera explicita, una postura ética que implica asumir un compromiso político con la sociedad en estudio.

"A groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time--from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries--and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent the various methods used by esteemed scholars today to study how Native Americans in the distant past created new social identities when old ideas of the self were challenged by changes in circumstance or by historical contingencies. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and folklorists working in the Southeast have always recognized the region's social diversity; indeed, the central purpose of these disciplines is to study peoples overlooked by the mainstream. Yet the ability to define and trace the origins of a collective social identity--the means by which individuals or groups align themselves, always in contrast to others--has proven to be an elusive goal. Here, editors Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith champion the relational identification and categorical identification processes, taken from sociological theory, as effective analytical tools. Taking up the challenge, the contributors have deployed an eclectic range of approaches to establish and inform an overarching theme of identity. Some investigate shell gorgets, textiles, shell trade, infrastructure, specific sites, or plant usage. Others focus on the edges of the Mississippian world or examine colonial encounters between Europeans and native peoples. A final chapter considers the adaptive malleability of historical legend in the telling and hearing of slave narratives"--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Social complexity -- Complex systems thinking -- Complex systems thinking in archaeology -- Structure of the book -- 2. The history of complexity in archaeology -- Introduction -- Social evolution -- Urbanisation and state formation -- Systems thinking and complexity -- Complex systems thinking -- 3. Conceptualising social complexity -- Introduction -- Building blocks of social complexity -- Complexity formation -- Outcomes of complexity -- Multi-scalar dynamics of change and stability -- 4. Social complexity trajectories in Anatolia -- Introduction -- Case study: Social complexity in Anatolia -- 5. Conclusions -- Reflections on the case study -- Reflections on the conceptual model -- Reflections on the future -- Bibliography -- Index.

This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, adoption, creativity and resistance.