Table of Contents

Part I. Theoretical perspectives I: 1. Ideology, power and prehistory: An introduction Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley; Part II. Ideology and Power in the Present and historical Past: 2. Endo ceramics and power strategies Alice Welbourn; 3. Interpreting ideology in historical archaeology: The William Paca Garden in Annapolis, Maryland Mark Leone; 4. Modernism and suburbia as material ideology Daniel Miller; Part III. Ideology and Power in Prehistory: 5. Burials, houses, women and men in the European Neolithic Ian Hodder; 6. Economic and ideological change: Cyclical growth in the pre-state societies of Jutland Michael Parker Pearson; 7. Ritual and prestige in the prehistory of Wessex c. 2200–1400 BC: A new dimension to the archaeological evidence Mary Braithwaite; 8. Ideology and the legitimation of power in the Middle Neolithic of Southern Sweden Christopher Tilley; Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Ideology, power, material culture and long-term change Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley.

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This book starts from the premise that methodology has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory.