Kathryn R. Morgan is an assistant professor of classical studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Is Everything Political? Kathryn R. Morgan1. Rethinking Politics and Spectacle in the Deep Past: Parallels for the Present? Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. NicholasPart I: Making Space2. Spatial Performances of Identity and Belonging in the Walled Cities of the Indian Subcontinent: Nested Spaces and Public Places. Monica L. Smith3. Performing Community: Ritual, Copper Production, and Local Politics on Archaic-Classical Cyprus. Catherine Kearns 4. The Reinvented Social Somatics of Ritual Performance on Early Crete: Engagements of Humans with Zoomorphic Vessels. Emily S. K. Anderson5. The Power of the Populace: Politics and the Mortuary Monuments of Tell Banat. Anne PorterPart II: Acting in Space6. Spacious or Empty? Making Courtyards in Mesopotamia. Augusta McMahon7. Hittite Political Rituals. Alice Mouton8. The "uppiluliuma Conundrum": A Hittite King between Religious Piety and Political Performance. Amir Gilan9. Botched, Tweaked, Reinterpreted-Three Case Studies of Manipulated Royal Rituals in Ancient Egypt. Katja Goebs10. City and Soul: Marian Processions in Late Antique Constantinople and Early Medieval Rome. Margaret M. AndrewsPart III: Reacting(?) in Space11. The Great Silence: Politics and Resistance in the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex. James F. Osborne12. Fumbling toward Complexity: Collective Action and the Built Environment at Early Phrygian Gordion. Kathryn R. Morgan13. An Imperial Audience: The Provincial Reception of Assyrian Political Rhetoric. Lauren Ristvet14. New Forms of Political Expression and Ideological Manipulation at the Dawn of State Formation: The Evidence from Fourth-Millennium Arslantepe, Turkey. Marcella Frangipane, with an appendix by Susanna CeredaPart IV: Response15. Political Performance: A Theory Response. Seth Richardson

Kathryn R. Morgan is an assistant professor of classical studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Is Everything Political? Kathryn R. Morgan1. Rethinking Politics and Spectacle in the Deep Past: Parallels for the Present? Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. NicholasPart I: Making Space2. Spatial Performances of Identity and Belonging in the Walled Cities of the Indian Subcontinent: Nested Spaces and Public Places. Monica L. Smith3. Performing Community: Ritual, Copper Production, and Local Politics on Archaic-Classical Cyprus. Catherine Kearns 4. The Reinvented Social Somatics of Ritual Performance on Early Crete: Engagements of Humans with Zoomorphic Vessels. Emily S. K. Anderson5. The Power of the Populace: Politics and the Mortuary Monuments of Tell Banat. Anne PorterPart II: Acting in Space6. Spacious or Empty? Making Courtyards in Mesopotamia. Augusta McMahon7. Hittite Political Rituals. Alice Mouton8. The "uppiluliuma Conundrum": A Hittite King between Religious Piety and Political Performance. Amir Gilan9. Botched, Tweaked, Reinterpreted-Three Case Studies of Manipulated Royal Rituals in Ancient Egypt. Katja Goebs10. City and Soul: Marian Processions in Late Antique Constantinople and Early Medieval Rome. Margaret M. AndrewsPart III: Reacting(?) in Space11. The Great Silence: Politics and Resistance in the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex. James F. Osborne12. Fumbling toward Complexity: Collective Action and the Built Environment at Early Phrygian Gordion. Kathryn R. Morgan13. An Imperial Audience: The Provincial Reception of Assyrian Political Rhetoric. Lauren Ristvet14. New Forms of Political Expression and Ideological Manipulation at the Dawn of State Formation: The Evidence from Fourth-Millennium Arslantepe, Turkey. Marcella Frangipane, with an appendix by Susanna CeredaPart IV: Response15. Political Performance: A Theory Response. Seth Richardson

Kathryn R. Morgan is an assistant professor of classical studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Is Everything Political? Kathryn R. Morgan1. Rethinking Politics and Spectacle in the Deep Past: Parallels for the Present? Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. NicholasPart I: Making Space2. Spatial Performances of Identity and Belonging in the Walled Cities of the Indian Subcontinent: Nested Spaces and Public Places. Monica L. Smith3. Performing Community: Ritual, Copper Production, and Local Politics on Archaic-Classical Cyprus. Catherine Kearns 4. The Reinvented Social Somatics of Ritual Performance on Early Crete: Engagements of Humans with Zoomorphic Vessels. Emily S. K. Anderson5. The Power of the Populace: Politics and the Mortuary Monuments of Tell Banat. Anne PorterPart II: Acting in Space6. Spacious or Empty? Making Courtyards in Mesopotamia. Augusta McMahon7. Hittite Political Rituals. Alice Mouton8. The "uppiluliuma Conundrum": A Hittite King between Religious Piety and Political Performance. Amir Gilan9. Botched, Tweaked, Reinterpreted-Three Case Studies of Manipulated Royal Rituals in Ancient Egypt. Katja Goebs10. City and Soul: Marian Processions in Late Antique Constantinople and Early Medieval Rome. Margaret M. AndrewsPart III: Reacting(?) in Space11. The Great Silence: Politics and Resistance in the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex. James F. Osborne12. Fumbling toward Complexity: Collective Action and the Built Environment at Early Phrygian Gordion. Kathryn R. Morgan13. An Imperial Audience: The Provincial Reception of Assyrian Political Rhetoric. Lauren Ristvet14. New Forms of Political Expression and Ideological Manipulation at the Dawn of State Formation: The Evidence from Fourth-Millennium Arslantepe, Turkey. Marcella Frangipane, with an appendix by Susanna CeredaPart IV: Response15. Political Performance: A Theory Response. Seth Richardson