Norman Yoffee
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81315 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Norman Yoffee |
| PRENOMES | Norman |
| SOBRENOME | Yoffee |
| ASSINATURA | YOFFEE N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8045-9369 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Negotiating the Past in the Past
Labor Omnia Vincit
Introduction
The Cambridge World History
From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of cities in Asia and the Mediterranean world, Africa, and the Americas. Through case studies and comparative accounts of key cities across the world, leading scholars chart the ways in which these cities grew as nodal…
The Power of Infrastructures
Different Cities
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Making Ancient Cities
This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism. Culturally and chronologically diverse case studies provide a basis to examine recent theoretical and methodological shifts in the archaeology of ancient cities. The book's primary goal is to examine how ancient cities were made by the people who lived in them. The authors argue that …
T. Patrick Culbert, 1930–2013
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New Territory in Archaeological Theory
L'archéologie dans les sciences humaines
Since archaeology is fundamentally the study of the human past, which is what the word “archaeology” connotes according to its Greek etymology, it is part of the humanities. However, archaeologists work in teams with scientists and employ quantitative techniques and comparative methods of the social sciences; archaeologists are thus an academic hybrid and are pleased to live in the interstices of many disciplines. In this article we review the hi…
Archaeology in the Humanities
Since archaeology is fundamentally the study of the human past, which is what the word "archaeology" connotes according to its Greek etymology, it is part of the humanities. However, archaeologists work in teams with scientists and employ quantitative techniques and comparative methods of the social sciences; archaeologists are thus an academic hybrid and are pleased to live in the interstices of many disciplines. In this article we review the hi…
Marketing Conquest and the Vanishing Indian
Archaeological Theory
Questioning Collapse
1. Why we question collapse and study human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yoffee Part I. Human Resilience and Ecological Vulnerability: 2. Ecological catastrophe, collapse, and the myth of 'ecocide' on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Terry L. Hunt and Carl P. Lipo 3. Did the medieval Norse society in Greenland really fail? Joel Berglund 4. Calamities without collapse: environment, econom…
Making Ancient Cities Plausible
The state of archaeological research on ancient cities is presented in three edited volumes, and our understanding of ancient urbanism is undoubtedly advanced. Some venerable questions are renewed, including how and whether ancient cities differ from modern ones. However, the chapters consist mainly of narrowly focused aspects of ancient cities, and there are few interconnecting themes running through each volume. Future investigations of ancient…
Settlement and Society
Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History . Bradley J. Parker , Lars Rodseth
Altered States
What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating; that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds. Ideologies create substantiating archives of images, representative images, which encapsulate common ideas of significance and trigger predictable thoughts, feelings.susan sontag (2003:86)
Myths of the Archaic State
In this ground-breaking work, Norman Yoffee shatters the prevailing myths underpinning our understanding of the evolution of early civilisations. He counters the emphasis in traditional scholarship on the rule of 'godly' and despotic male leaders and challenges the conventional view that early states were uniformly constituted bureaucratic and regional entities. Instead, by illuminating the role of slaves and soldiers, priests and priestesses, pe…
T. Patrick Culbert
Pat Culbert's scholarship and teaching are marked by both an insistence on rigorous attention to data and a gentleness and humaneness in which scholarly inquiry should flourish. I discuss in this paper one aspect of his research—the size and degree of political integration of Maya polities—by means of a comparison with Mesopotamian examples
The Archaeological Process
The Archaeological Process: An Introduction. Ian Hodder. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 242 pp.Archaeological Theory Today. Ian Hodder. ed. Oxford: Polity, 2001. 328 pp
From Leaders to Rulers. Jonathan Haas
Privatization in the Ancient near East and Classical World
R. Haring and R. de Maaijer. Landless and Hungry? Access to Land in Early and Traditional Societies
Questioning Collapse
Political Economy in Early Mesopotamian States
An enormous amount of work has been done in recent years on what can be called the political economy of the earliest states in ancient Mesopotamia. These investigations appraise the organization of the great manorial estates of temples and palaces and show that local systems of power and authority coexisted with and often resisted centralized governments. It is also apparent that social institutions were permeable and that individuals played mult…
The Decline and Rise of Mesopotamian Civilization
The typological schemes constructed by many archaeologists to explain the rise and fall of civilizations have neither accounted for the processual changes involved in the evolution of social complexity nor contributed to the development of a comparative method for considering regularities and variation in social behavior. This paper begins with a review of the foundations on which archaeologists have based their conceptions of social evolution. A…
The Power of Infrastructures
Perspectives on ‘trends toward social complexity in prehistoric Australia and Papua New Guinea’1
Making Ancient Cities Plausible
The state of archaeological research on ancient cities is presented in three edited volumes, and our understanding of ancient urbanism is undoubtedly advanced. Some venerable questions are renewed, including how and whether ancient cities differ from modern ones. However, the chapters consist mainly of narrowly focused aspects of ancient cities, and there are few interconnecting themes running through each volume. Future investigations of ancient…
Privatization in the Ancient near East and Classical World
Aspects of Mesopotamian Land Sales
Early Stages in the Evolution of Mesopotamian Civilization
Between 1969 and 1980, Soviet archaeologists conducted excavations of Mesopotamian villages occupied from pre-agricultural times through the beginnings of early civilization. This volume brings together translations of Russian articles along with new work
Is Fission the Future of Anthropology
The Economics of Ritual at Late Old Babylonian Kish
A small archive of economic documents from the city of Kish in the late Old Babylonian period records amounts of money owed to the “supervisor of kezertu women” from the kezertu account. The employment of kezertu women in ritual performance is investigated as well as the managerial activities of the “supervisor of kezertu women.” The historical reasons for the migration of the cult of Ištar of Uruk to Kish and the economics of ritual performance …
Robert McCormick Adams
Robert Adams celebrated his 70th birthday on July 23, 1996. Forty years ago American Antiquity published his first journal article, which helped launch a remarkable career. Adams has influenced not only fundamental aspects of social evolutionary theory and archaeological reconnaissance surveys but also the structure of support for science in the United States and abroad. At the 1996 meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Adams was awar…
Do You See Yonder Cloud That's Almost in the Shape of a Camel? Reply to Peters
Discussion of various models of sociocultural evolution and their applicability to the explanation of archaeological data is certainly in order in reference to my recent article on the subject. Intemperate and unproductive remarks that miss the point of the article, however, deserve less attention. Here I shall simply respond to specific charges raised by Peters and then use the remainder of this reply to place my argument within the scope of som…
Linguistics
Aspects of Old Assyrian Trade and Its Terminology . K. R. Veenhof
On Studying Old Babylonian History
Archaeology
W. Robertson Smith and the Sociological Study of Religion
Die Schlussklauseln der altbabylonischen Kauf- und Tauschverträge
The Decline and Rise of Mesopotamian Civilization
The typological schemes constructed by many archaeologists to explain the rise and fall of civilizations have neither accounted for the processual changes involved in the evolution of social complexity nor contributed to the development of a comparative method for considering regularities and variation in social behavior. This paper begins with a review of the foundations on which archaeologists have based their conceptions of social evolution. A…
Kish Excavations 1923-1933. With a Microfiche Catalogue of the Objects in Oxford Excavated by the Oxford-Field Museum, Chicago. Expedition to Kish in Iraq, 1923-1933
Ethnicity in Ancient Western Asia during the Early Second Millennium B. C
Early Old Babylonian Documents . Stephen Simmons and Edwin C. Kingsbury
General and Theoretical
Do You See Yonder Cloud That's Almost in the Shape of a Camel? Reply to Peters
Discussion of various models of sociocultural evolution and their applicability to the explanation of archaeological data is certainly in order in reference to my recent article on the subject. Intemperate and unproductive remarks that miss the point of the article, however, deserve less attention. Here I shall simply respond to specific charges raised by Peters and then use the remainder of this reply to place my argument within the scope of som…
Honk If You Know Darwin
Having previously responded to one anguished claim that societal evolutionism is so a subset of biological evolution, it is interesting now to consider the position that societal evolutionism owes nothing to the natural sciences. Dunnell and Wenke's schoolmasterly comment, while properly underscoring the independent idea of evolution as part of social philosophy, curiously adumbrates a number of biological issues that by their own standards are n…
Remarques sur l'administration Paléobabylonienne sous les successeurs d'Hammurapi
Social History and Historical Method in the Late Old Babylonian Period
Perspectives on ‘trends toward social complexity in prehistoric Australia and Papua New Guinea’1
Old Babylonian Tablets from Dilbat in the Ashmolean Museum
In the course of studying Old Babylonian tablets in Oxford, and particularly the Kish collection conserved in the Ashmolean Museum, N. Yoffee copied six tablets that had been presented in 1951 by St. John's College, Oxford, to the Ashmolean. Although the circumstances by which the texts were acquired are unknown, the documents themselves could easily be judged to have come from Dilbat (modern Dulaihim) on the strength of prosopographic comparison…
Explaining Trade in Ancient Western Asia
Mesopotamien und seine Nachbarn
The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations
Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations
The Circulation of Goods in Non-Palatial Context in the Ancient Near East
Aspects of Mesopotamian Land Sales
The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations
Archeology
History (58 obras) · Archaeology (37 obras) · Computer Science (27 obras) · Ancient Near East History (25 obras) · Sociology (23 obras) · Ancient history (22 obras) · Classics (20 obras) · Library science (20 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 obras) · History (18 obras)