Overview

Full Product Details

9781646422944

Table of Contents

Reviews

With broad appeal and a wide geographic and chronological scope of case studies, Life at the Margins of the State expertly illustrates the range of mutual influences between ancient states and surrounding communities. --Ian Lindsay, Purdue University A compelling examination of societies that are often deemed marginal. Full of new perspectives, this book maintains the agency and initiative of peripheral groups beyond just their relationship to the core. --Lewis Borck, New Mexico Highlands University

"""With broad appeal and a wide geographic and chronological scope of case studies, Life at the Margins of the State expertly illustrates the range of mutual influences between ancient states and surrounding communities."" --Ian Lindsay, Purdue University ""A compelling examination of societies that are often deemed marginal. Full of new perspectives, this book maintains the agency and initiative of 'peripheral' groups beyond just their relationship to the core."" --Lewis Borck, New Mexico Highlands University"

With broad appeal and a wide geographic and chronological scope of case studies, Life at the Margins of the State expertly illustrates the range of mutual influences between ancient states and surrounding communities. --Ian Lindsay, Purdue University A compelling examination of societies that are often deemed marginal. Full of new perspectives, this book maintains the agency and initiative of 'peripheral' groups beyond just their relationship to the core. --Lewis Borck, New Mexico Highlands University

"""With broad appeal and a wide geographic and chronological scope of case studies, Life at the Margins of the State expertly illustrates the range of mutual influences between ancient states and surrounding communities."" --Ian Lindsay, Purdue University ""A compelling examination of societies that are often deemed marginal. Full of new perspectives, this book maintains the agency and initiative of 'peripheral' groups beyond just their relationship to the core."" --Lewis Borck, New Mexico Highlands University ""A thought-provoking reexamination of past societies that occupied the ""marginal"" areas of state control. . . . showcasing the unique and diverse political, social, and economic trajectories of societies at the political margins in different parts of the world."" to the core."" --Journal of Anthropological Research"

Author Information

Alicia M. Boswell is assistant professor in the History of Art and Architecture Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has been named an Early Career Hellman Fellow. She was an Andrew W. Mellon “Cultures of Conservation” Postdoctoral Fellow at Bard Graduate Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, and her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation. Kyle A. Knabb is a senior archaeologist at PaleoWest, LLC. He was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society / Waitt Foundation.   

Tab Content 6

Countries Available