13775a

WiSe 13/14: Opposition und Resistance

Susan Pollock, Sabine Reinhold

Information for students

Das Seminar 13775a muss zusammen mit dem Colloquium 13775b besucht werden. Die Teilnehmerzahl ist auf 15 Personen beschränkt

Comments

Archaeology has generally focused on the "winners" in history - those who hold political, economic, social and religious power. But just as in more recent, textually documented periods, there is every reason to assume the existence of resistance and opposition to existing power structures in the past. In recent years interests in agency and the micropolitics of power have begun to direct attention to ways in which opposition and resistance can be explored archaeologically. In this seminar we will examine some of the potential approaches to these issues, both theoretically and methodologically. Discussions of relevant literature will serve as a basis for each student's individual research on a case study of her/his choosing, in which opposition or resistance can be approached with archaeological materials. close

Suggested reading

D. Miller, M. Rowlands, & C. Tilly, eds. (1989) Domination and Resistance. London: Unwin Hyman. J. C. Scott (1985) Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press. J. C. Scott (1990) Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. New Haven: Yale University Press. M. Walzer (1993) Interpretation and Social Criticism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. [Kritik und Gemeinsinn. Drei Wege der Gesellschaftskritik. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer] S. Pollock (2011) Imperial ideologies and hidden transcripts: a case from Akkadian period Mesopotamia. In Ideologies in Archaeology, edited by R. Bernbeck and R.l McGuire, pp. 130-150. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. M. Heinz (2008) Die Repräsentation der Macht und die Macht der Repräsentation in Zeiten politischen Umbruchs. Rebellion in Mesopotamien. München: Wilhelm Fink. close