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The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy, and Society (Case Studies in Early Societies, Series Number 10) 1st Edition
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- ISBN-100521576520
- ISBN-13978-0521576529
- Edition1st
- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication dateOctober 26, 2009
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions5.99 x 0.95 x 9.02 inches
- Print length418 pages
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"...this book is definitely an important contribution to the field because it presents a wide range of new data collected by the author in the larger context of the field of Indus studies." -Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Journal of Anthropological Research
"...an important benchmark in the study of the ancient Indus." -Gethin Rees, Archaeological Review from Cambridge
"The Ancient Indus, like other books in the Case Studies in Early Societies series, gives an excellent introduction to all important exemplar of the archaic state. Wright's accessible account of this civilization forms and history ensures the volume's suit ability for graduate and undergraduate courses dealing with South Asian culture history, comparative analyses of ancient states, and the varied methods employed in their study" -Ed Schortman, American Anthropologist
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This book is written in straight-forward unadorned prose. There are some editorial and production errors, but these are out-weighed by the accuracy and detail provided about this massive and diverse material culture. The author discusses her theoretical orientation, and it resembles the "holistic" approach taken by Bruce Trigger and many others. Prof. Wright makes a few excursions in the direction of post-modernism and neo-structuralism, such as "imagined landscapes" she envisions (based directly on the data), but the book as a whole is highly empirical. It will make an excellent text for upper-division courses on cross-cultural comparative analyses, and as an introductory text in South Asian studies. For those readers whose knowlege of this topic ends with the works of M. Wheeler(e.g., Prof. Wright points out that there is absolutely no evidence that Aryan invades conquered the Indus civilization), this book will introduce them to our greatly expanded knowledge of the Indus civilization, and its significance to anthropology and archaeology.
Material on the great Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations of the ancient world is readily available, and their achievements are widely celebrated, but a no less complex and technologically sophisticated society centered in Pakistan and India gets little in the way of attention from science popularizers. Professor Wright is not that; she presents a picture of an archaeologist at work, giving her peers a report on the status of the investigations by her and others in the region. Even pitched to that audience, the prose is accessible enough that a careful reading by an "informed amateur" yields a wealth of information about a remarkable world. Portrayed is a group of city-states built on a "theme", or principle, of transforming (harmonically - as opposed to controlling and imposing change) their natural surroundings ("landscapes"). They built on a massive scale, traded with and administered vast geographic areas, produced artworks of a high order - and all apparently without a command structure headed by a king, pharaoh, or high priest. To the list of the great cities of ancient world - such as Thebes, Abydos and Ur - should be added the names Mehrgarh, Mohenjo-daro, Dholavira and especially Harappa.
What has been achieved by Professor Wright and her colleagues and peers in painting this portrait is all the more remarkable because it relies almost entirely on a careful parsing of the physical evidence: as yet, there is no Rosetta Stone to translate the Indus writing, which would make the task of interpretation much easier. As such, the physical archaeology is all that is available, and Professor Wright, while careful not to stretch the evidence into the realm of speculation, makes a solid scientific case that pushes hard on the boundaries of knowledge of this vanished civilization.