Abstract

A question of complexity, Michael Rowlands discourse and power - the genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture, Christopher Tilley the limits of dominance, Daniel Miller the roots of inequality, Barbara Bender towards a theory of social evolution - on State systems and ideological shells, J.A.Hall the imperial form and universal history - some reflections on relativism and generalization, John Gledhill factional competition in complex society, Elizabeth M.Brumfiel sensuous human activity and the State - towards an archaeology of bread and circuses, Susan Kus Anuradhapura - ritual, power and resistance in a precolonial South Asian city, R.A.L.H.Gunawardana monastery plan and social formation - the spatial organization of the Buddhist monastery complexes of the early and middle historical period in Sri Lanka and changing patterns of political power, Senake Bandaranayake a Buddhist monastic complex of the medieval period in Sri Lanka, P.L.Prematilleke the social aspects of consumption, Kristian Kristianson Marxist perspectives on social organization in the central European Early Bronze Age, Simon Mays orientalism and Near-Eastern archaeology, Morgens Trolle Larsen the material culture of the modern era in the ancient Orient - suggestions for future work, Philip L.Kohl culture, identity and world process, Jonathan Friedman the archaeology of colonialism and constituting the African peasantry, Michael Rowlands resistance to Western domination - the case of Andean cultures, Pedro Portugal the development of an urban working-class culture on the Rhodesian copperbelt, Owen B.Sichone class formation in precolonial Nigeria - the case of eastern and western Nigeria and the middle belt, Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali violence and consent in a peasant society, B.K.Jahangir.

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