Table of Contents
List of contributors Foreword P.J. Ucko Preface Introduction Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands and Christopher Tilley Domination and Resistance 1. A question of complexity Michael Rowlands 2. Discourse and power: the genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture Christopher Tilley
3. The limits of dominance Daniel Miller Political Economy and Ideology: Historical Transformations 4. The roots of inequality arbara Bender 5. Towards a theory of social evolution: on state systems and ideological shells J.A. Hall 6. The imperial form and universal history: some
reflections on relativism and generalization John Gledhill 7. Factional competition in complex society Elizabeth M. Brumfiel 8. Sensuous human activity and the state: towards an archaeology of bread and circuses Susan Kus 9. Anuradhapura: ritual, power and resistance in a precolonial
South Asian city R.A.L.H. Gunawardana 10. Monastery plan and social formation: the spatial organization of the Buddhist monastery complexes of the Early and Mi