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Opposition and ResistanceLV 13775 a+bInternationales Modul: Berlin-Copenhagen Seminar (S + C)Wednesdays 10-12 Uhr, Container, Hüttenweg 7+ Colloquium in Berlin and Copenhagen&#160;Course content and objectivesArchaeology 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. Lower classes and marginalized parts of society come into focus, and colonial interaction in antiquity as well as in pre-modern history are discussed in terms of resistance, negotiation, and creolization.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.Please find the Plan of the Seminar Meetings here&#160;Plan of the Seminar MeetingsWeek 1 (16.10.)        IntroductionWeek 2 (23.10.)        Readings and discussion: foundational literatureWalzer, Michael (1990 [1987]) Kritik und Gemeinsinn. Drei Wege der Gesellschaftskritik. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer [originally published as Interpretation and Social Criticism, Harvard University Press]• chapters II and IIIScott, James C. (1985) Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press.• chapter 2Scott, James C. (1990) Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. New Haven: Yale University Press.• chapters 1 &#38; 2Ortner, Sherry (1995) Resistance and the problem of ethnographic refusal. Comparative Studies in Society and History 37: 173-193.Week 3 (30.10.)        Readings and discussion: agency, power, domination, forms of resistanceLüdtke, Alf (1993) Eigen-Sinn. Fabrikalltag, Arbeitererfahrungen und Politik vom Kaiserreich bis in den Faschismus. Hamburg: Ergebnisse Verlag.• chapter “Lohn, Pausen, Neckereien…” (pp. 120-160)Miller, Daniel, Michael Rowlands, and Christopher Tilly, eds. (1989) Domination and Resistance. London: Unwin Hyman.• Introduction (Miller, Rowlands and Tilley)• The Limits of Dominance (Miller)Weik, T.M. (2012) The Archaeology of Anti-Slavery Resistance.• Chap. 3 “Resistance, Freedom, Networks, and Ethnogenesis in Theory and Practice (pp. 26-54)Pauketat, Timothy and Susan Alt (2005) Agency in a postmold? Physicality and the archaeology of culture. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 12: 213-236.Week 4 (06.11.)        Readings and discussion: sources and examplesSelz, Gebhard (2010) “The poor are the silent ones in the country”. On the loss of legitimacy. Challenging power in early Mesopotamia. In Who Was King? Who Was Not King? The Rulers and the Ruled in the Ancient Near East, edited by Petr Charvát and Petra Maříková Vlčková,  pp. 1-15. Prague: Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.Urbainczyk, T. (2008) Slave Revolts in Antiquity.• Chap. 6 “Sympathy for the slaves: Diodorus Siculus” (pp. 81-90• Chap. 8 “Slave revolts in the ancient historiography” (pp. 100-115)Miller, Daniel, Michael Rowlands, and Christopher Tilly, eds. (1989) Domination and Resistance. London: Unwin Hyman.• Factional Competition in Complex Society (Brumfiel)Weik, T.M. (2012) The Archaeology of Anti-Slavery Resistance.• Chap. 6 “Coalitions, Community-Building, and Conflict in Seminole Territory”Moosbauer, G., S. Wilbers-Rost (2009) Kalkriese und die Varusschlacht. Multidisziplinäre Forschungen zu einem militärischen Konflikt. In 2000 Jahre Varusschlacht – Konflikt, pp. 56-67.Erdal, Yılmaz and Ömür  Erdal (2012) Organized violence in Anatolia: A retrospective research on the injuries from the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. International Journal of Paleopathology 2: 78-92.Week 5 (13.11.)        Discussion of presentation topicsWeek 6 (20.11.)        Readings and discussion: sources and examplesPollock, Susan (2011) Imperial ideologies and hidden transcripts: a case from Akkadian period Mesopotamia.  In Ideologies in Archaeology, edited by R. Bernbeck and R. McGuire, pp. 130-150. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.Webster, J. (2003) Art as resistance and negotiation. In Roman Imperialism and Provincial Art, S. Scott and J. Webster (eds.), pp. 24-52.Loren, Diana (2001) Social skins: orthodoxies and practices of dressing in the early colonial lower Mississippi Valley. Journal of Social Archaeology 1:172-189.Baker, Patricia (1997) Politics of dress. The dress reform laws of 1920-1930s Iran. In Languages of Dress in the Middle East, Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper and Bruce Ingham (eds.), pp. 178-192.Heinz, Marlies (2008) Die Repräsentation der Macht und die Macht der Repräsentation in Zeiten politischen Umbruchs. Rebellion in Mesopotamien. München: Wilhelm Fink.• Section B: 4 case studies – choose oneAdams, Robert McCormick (2008) An interdisciplinary overview of a Mesopotamian city and its hinterlands. Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2008: 1 (http://cdli.ucla.edu/?q=publications/journal)Aldhouse-Green, M. (2006) Semiologies of subjugation: the ritualisation of war – prisoners in later European antiquity. In Warfare and Society.Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives, Otto Ton, Henrik Thrane and Helle Vandgilde (eds.), pp. 281-318.Week 7 (27.11.)                    PresentationsWeek 8                                 Colloquium: Copenhagen students in BerlinWeeks 9-14 (11.12.2013 – 29.01.2014)    PresentationsWeek 15 (05.02.)                  Colloquium: Berlin students in CopenhagenWeek 16 (12.02.)                  Final discussionKontakt:Prof. Dr. Susan PollockHüttenweg 7, Zi. 16E- Mail: spollock@zedat.fu-berlin.deTelefon: 8385 7026Sprechstunden: Dienstags, 14-16 Uhrund n.V.&#160;PD Dr. Sabine ReinholdDAI-Eurasien Abt.,Im Dol 2-6E- Mail: sabine.reinhold@dainst.deTelefon: 187711-327Sprechstunden: n.V.News vom 16.10.2013