Using the Capability Approach to Conceptualise Inequality in Archaeology: the Case of the Late Neolithic Bosnian Site Okolište c. 5200–4600 BCE
| Autor: | Martin Furholt, Artur Ribeiro, Martin Hinz, Johannes Müller, Christian Horn, Robert Hofmann, Vesa P. J. Arponen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499) History Bosnian Inequality media_common.quotation_subject Social inequality Distribution (economics) Consumption (sociology) 01 natural sciences 0601 history and archaeology Neolithic 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Capability approach House burnings 060102 archaeology business.industry Realisation 06 humanities and the arts Archaeology language.human_language Expression (architecture) Central Bosnia language business |
| Zdroj: | Arponen, V. P. J.; Müller, Johannes; Hofmann, Robert; Furholt, Martin; Ribeiro, Artur; Horn, Christian; Hinz, Martin (2016). Using the Capability Approach to Conceptualise Inequality in Archaeology: the Case of the Late Neolithic Bosnian Site Okolište c. 5200–4600 BCE. Journal of archaeological method and theory, 23(2), pp. 541-560. Springer 10.1007/s10816-015-9252-0 |
| Popis: | The past few decades have witnessed a growing realisation that market-based measures of human well-being—measures that centre on income and consumption distributions—miss some other perhaps even more essential elements of human well-being. This insight has found a prominent expression in the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen’s so-called capability approach. At the same time, the market-based measure of inequality as a function of the distribution of material remains in graves and other locations remain dominant in archaeology. In this paper, we explore the significance of the capability approach, and the associated concept of human well-being based on the idea of capabilities, to the archaeology of socialinequality and social malintegration. We discuss these notions using the case study of the Late Neolithic Bosnian tell site Okolište and argue that there, in c. 5200–4600 BCE , the monopolisation of certain critical goods led to a critical capability inequality, malintegration and to a prolonged period of social unrest and decline. |
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