New Materialisms Ancient Urbanisms

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Table of contents
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Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introducing New Materialisms, rethinking ancient urbanisms
	Theoretical packaging
		Assemblage
		Immanence
		Affectivity and stratification
	New Materialism’s methodology
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
2 From weeping hills to lost caves: A search for vibrant matter in greater Cahokia
	Assemblage thinking
	The Cahokian urban assemblage
		Emerald Acropolis
		The Cahokia precinct
		Lost caves
		Other karst plains
		Water spirits
	Discussion and conclusion
	Notes
	References
3 Chaco gathers: Experience and assemblage in the ancient Southwest
	Prologue
	An overview of Chaco
	Chacoan assemblages
		The place: Earth, sky, water, stone, corn
		The experience: Senses, bodies, movement
		Historical relationships: Time, memory, ancestors
	Chaco territorialized and deterritorialized
		The canyon gathers
		Chaco pulled apart and reassembled
	Contemporary assemblages
	References
4 Assembling the city: Monte Albán as a mountain of creation and sustenance
	Agential cuts and Mesoamerican vitality
	Assembling earth, rain, and maize at San José Mogote
	Monte Albán as a mountain of creation and sustenance
	Appropriating the divine, reconfiguring the political
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgments
	References
5 Assembling Tiwanaku: Water and stone, humans and monoliths
	Formative origins
	Water
	Stone
	Hydrolithic assemblies
	Fleshly subjects
		Southwest campus
		Kochamama triad and the northeast campus
		Akapana and Kalasasaya
		Andesite Corridor
	Monolithic personages
	Assembling Tiwanaku
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6 Immanence and the spirit of ancient urbanism at Paquimé and Liangzhu
	Urbanism as affects and assemblage
	Immanence and water
	Paquimé
	Liangzhu
	Discussion
		Assemblage conversions, religious conversions
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Appendix
	References
7 The gathering of Swahili religious practice: Mosques-as-assemblages at 1000 ce Swahili towns
	The Swahili: A brief overview
	Mosques and evolution of Islam on the Swahili coast
		From mud to coral: Mosques from 780 to 1000
		Coral-built mosques at 1000 ce
	The fore/nearshore and Swahili towns
		Resources and rhythms
		Other possible residents of the fore/nearshore: Sea spirits
	Discussion
	Afterword
	7 Iterating and rebuilding mosques, from “building in” to “building out”
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
8 Urbanism and the temporality of materiality on the medieval Deccan: Beyond the cosmograms of social and political space
	Introduction
	The landscape of religion and urbanism in medieval South India
		Deccan cities: Cosmograms and canons
		Ritual practices and defining “urbanization” in South India
	The politics of urban landscapes
	The Maski Archaeological Research Project and medieval Maski
	The temporality of materiality in producing social space at Maski
	The production of medieval urban environments on the Deccan
	Conclusion: Beyond the cosmograms of Deccan social and political space
	Acknowledgments
	Note
	References
9 Cities, the Underworld, and the infrastructure: The ecology of water in the Hittite world
	Introduction: Cities and desire
	Near Eastern cities in perspective
	Ancestors, the Underworld and the infrastructure: The materiality of water in the Hittite world
	Water from the ponds of Hattuša to the monuments at the borderlands
	Conclusions: Water as assemblage
	Notes
	References
10 Commentary: The City and The City
	Introduction
	The (virtual) city and the (actual) city
		The close virtual
	The cities and New Materialism
		Water
		Stone
	Further assembly required?
		Native ontologies
		Politics and power in New Materialist cities
	Conclusion: Difference, differentiation and the double bind
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Index