REINHARD W. BERNBECK

Email: rbernbec@binghamton.edu

(PhD Freie Universität Berlin 1991), Professor of Anthropology, is a Near Eastern archaeologist with interests in the economic organization of prehistoric and historic societies. He is particularly concerned with rural-urban migration and nomadism in the past and their impact on social and economic structures. He has conducted fieldwork in Syria, Jordan and Turkey (Kazane and Fistikli Höyük).

in press  Heritage Politics: Learning from Mullah Omar?? To appear in a volume edited by Ran Boytner and Lynn Swartz Dodd, Filtering the Past, Building the Future. Archaeology, Tradition and Politics in the Middle East. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

in press  Sex/Gender/Power and Sammuramat: A View from the Syrian Steppe. To appear in Fundstellen: Gesammelte Schriften zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altvorderasiens ad honorem Hartmut Kühne, pp. 351-370. Edited by Dominik Bonatz, Rainer M. Czichon and F. Janoscha Kreppner, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz..

2008       Structural Violence in Archaeology. Archaeologies.

2008      An Archaeology of Multi-Sited Communities. In Hans Barnard and Willeke Wendrich, eds.: The Archaeology of Mobility. Old World and New World Nomadism, pp. 43-77. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA.

2008      Royal Deification: An Ambiguation Mechanism for the Creation of Courtier Subjectivities. In Nicole Brisch, ed.:Religion and Power. Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond, pp. 157-170. Oriental Institute Seminars 4. Chicago: University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Press.

2008      The Rise of the State. In R. Alexander Bentley, Herbert D.G. Maschner and Christopher Chippindale, eds.: Handbook of Archaeological Theories, pp. 533-546. Lanham (MD): Altamira Press.

2005      Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck, eds.: Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives. Oxford: Blackwell.

1997      Theorien in der Archäologie. Tübingen: Francke-Verlag.

 

On Leave for 2009-2010 Academic Year

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