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Rethinking Empire: Materiality, Metaphysics, and Imperial Politics (en Inglés)
Tamara L. Bray (Autor)
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University of New Mexico Press
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Rethinking Empire: Materiality, Metaphysics, and Imperial Politics (en Inglés) - Tamara L. Bray
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A new and characteristically innovative work from the School for Advanced Research's Seminar Series.
This groundbreaking volume explores how dynamic interactions between human actors, material objects, and metaphysical beliefs shaped and sustained empires. From Han Chinese water management to Xiongnu drinking vessels, from Hittite royal imagery to Teotihuacan animal sacrifices, from Andean anti-imperial resistance to ritual rebirth in Travancore, the case studies reveal how materials and metaphysics intertwined to both enable and constrain imperial ambitions. The contributors examine how assemblages of artifacts, resources, animals, and landscapes actively shaped power relations across diverse imperial formations, while sometimes facilitating resistance to them. Moving beyond conventional political histories, the volume illuminates how things helped constitute imperial authority. In examining these material-political assemblages, the authors provide new theoretical frameworks for understanding empire-building as an emergent process involving both human and non-human actors, while raising crucial questions about archaeology’s ethical obligations in studying imperial power.
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