Materialization of social resistance: trends on NW Iberia late Prehistory and Protohistory and beyond

Summary

This paper deals with a so-called "negative" approach to social complexity and social development. Instead of understanding the arising of complex societies as a result of positive ontology, it focuses on the resistances, negations and the invisible that tried to avoid or at least to minimize social inequality and exploitation. The arising of complex societies could, alternatively, be conceived as the trend to resist social division and its generalization. The paper will show as the material traces of archaeological record and the different dimensions of materialization processes could reflect in certain contexts communities strategies against the social division. The paper will focus on the development of monumentality and iron metallurgy. While primarily based on archaeological evidence from Galicia (NW of Iberia Peninsula), looking at late prehistory dynamics from IV to I millennia BC, it will also deal with case-studies from other parts of the world as South America and Central Africa.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Power from Below: Collectivity and Heterarchy in Global Perspective

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Abstract Id(s): 17049