Archaeology of Performance: Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics 0759108765, 9780759108769

Table of contents :
Contents
Series Editor’s Foreword
PROLOGUE
Prologue: Behind the Scenes: Producing the Performance • Lawrence S. Coben and Takeshi Inomata
ACT I: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES
Scene I: Overture: An Invitation to the Archaeological Theater • Takeshi Inomata and Lawrence S. Coben
ACT II: SENSES, SPECTACLE, AND PERFORMANCE
Scene 2: “The Indians Were Much Given to Their Taquis”: Drumming and Generative Categories in Ancient Andean Processions • Jerry D. Moore
Scene 3: The Spectacle of Daily Performance at Çatalhöyük • Ian Hodder
Scene 4: Representational Aesthetics and Political Subjectivity: The Spectacular in Urartian Images of Performance • Adam T. Smith
Scene 5: Impersonation, Dance, and the Problem of Spectacle among the Classic Maya • Stephen D. Houston
ACT III: PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF POWER AND COMMUNITY
Scene 6: Dancing Gods: Ritual, Performance, and Political Organization in the Prehistoric Southwest • Daniela Triadan
Scene 7: Politics and Theatricality in Mayan Society • Takeshi Inomata
Scene 8: Other Cuzcos: Replicated Theaters of Inka Power • Lawrence S. Coben
Scene 9: Public Ceremonial Performance in Ancient Egypt: Exclusion and Integration • John Baines
Scene 10: Visible and Vocal: Sovereigns of the Early Merina (Madagascar) State • Susan Kus and Victor Raharijaona
Index
About the Contributors

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Archaeology of Performance

ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOCIETY SERIES

Series Editors Ian Hodder, Stanford University Robert Preucel, University ofPennsylvania In the past twenty years, archaeology has expanded beyond a narrow focus on economics and environmental adaptation to address issues of ideology, power, and meaning. These trends, sometimes termed "postprocessual," deal with both the interpretation of the past as hermeneutics and the complex and politically charged interrelationships of past and present. Today, archaeology is responding to, and incorporating aspects of the debates on, identity, meaning, and politics currently being explored in varying fields: social anthropology, sociology, geography, history, linguistics, and psychology. There is a growing realization that ancient studies and material culture can be aligned within the contemporary construction of identities under the rubrics of nationalism, ethnoscapes, and globalization. This international series will help connect the contemporary practice of archaeology with these trends in research and, in the process, demonstrate the relevance of archaeology to related fields and society in general. Volumes in this series: Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture ofArchaeology,

Ian J. McNiven and Lynette Russell (2005) Archaeology ofPerformance: Theaters ofPower, Community, and Politics, edited

by Takeshi Inomata and Lawrence S. Coben (2006)

Archaeology of Performance Theaters

of Power, Community, and Politics

EDITED BY

Takeshi Inomata and Lawrence S. Coben

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system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Archaeology of performance: theaters of power, community, and politics I edited by Takeshi Inomata and Lawrence S. Coben. p. em. - (Archaeology in society series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0876-9 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-lO: 0-7591-0876-5 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0877-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-l0: 0-7591-0877-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Social archaeology. 2. Theater and society. 3. Theater-History-To 500. 4. Performing arts-Social aspects. I. Inomata, Takeshi, 1961- II. Coben, Lawrence S. III. Series. CC72.4.A738 2006 930.110l-dc22 2005024190 Printed in the United States of America §m The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

CONTENTS

Series Editor's Foreword . ... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foreword.......

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PROLOGUE PROLOGUE Behind the Scenes: Producing the Performance............... Performance... ........ .... Lawrence S. Coben Coben and Takeshi Takeshi Inomata

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ACT I CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES CONCEPTS Archaeological Theater............ Theater . ... ... ..... SCENE I Overture: An Invitation to the Archaeological Takeshi Inomata and Lawrence S. S. Coben Coben

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ACT II

SENSES, SPECTACLE, AND PERFORMANCE Given to Their Taquis": SCENE 2 "The Indians Were Much Much Given Taquis": in Ancient Andean Drumming and Generative Categories in .. . . .. . . ... . . .. . . .... .. . ... . .. ..... . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . Funerary Processions. Processions.......................................................... Jerry D. Moore

SCENE 3 The Spectacle of Daily